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PREFERRED TERM

hepatitis E

TYPE

Topic

DEFINITION

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.
Inflamación aguda del hígado en humanos provocada por el virus de la hepatitis E, un virus de ARN monocatenario sin envoltura. De manera similar a la hepatitis A, su período de incubación es de 15 a 60 días, y se transmite en forma entérica, frecuentemente a través de la vía fecal-oral.

BROADER CONCEPT

viral hepatitis

RELATED CONCEPTS

Hepatitis E virus

ALTERNATIVE LABEL

enterically-Transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis
epidemic non-A, non-B hepatitis
ET-NANBH
hepatitis, viral, non-A, non-B, enterically-transmitted
hepatitis, water-borne

BELONGS TO GROUP

diseases

IN OTHER LANGUAGES

hepatitis E	Dutch
hepatite E	Portuguese
hepatitis E	Spanish

URI

http://id.agrisemantics.org/gacs/C26165

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http://id.cabi.org/cabt/56597	id.cabi.org
http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/82555	lod.nal.usda.gov