NALT

Preferred term

hepatitis E

Topic

Acute inflammation of the liver in humans; caused by Hepatitis E virus, a non-enveloped single-stranded RNA virus. Similar to hepatitits A, its incubation period is 15-60 days and is enterically transmitted, usually by fecal-oral transmission.

viral hepatitis

Orthohepevirus A

ET-NANBH

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

61110

Spanish

hepatitis E

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/82555

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Created 7/21/06, last modified 11/17/17