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A case report is given of a man with bronchial asthma who fell ill in a stomatitis. He was treated, inter alia, with antibiotics and corticosteroids. Haematemesis, melena, jaundice, anuria and circulatory insufficiency developed and the patient died. Autopsy revealed hepatitis, erosive gastritis with gastrointestinal bleeding and shock kidneys. Histologically the hepatitis was consistent with a herpes simplex hepatitis. Herpes simplex virus was isolated from the liver.
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