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Digestive System Diseases > Liver Diseases > Hepatitis > Hepatitis, Viral, Human > Hepatitis E
Infections > Virus Diseases > Hepatitis, Viral, Human > Hepatitis E
Infections > Virus Diseases > RNA Virus Infections > Hepatitis E

Preferred term

Hepatitis E  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Enterically Transmitted Non A, Non B Hepatitis
  • Enterically-Transmitted Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis
  • Epidemic Non A, Non B Hepatitis
  • Epidemic Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis
  • ET-NANBH
  • Hepatitides, Water-Borne
  • Hepatitis, Viral, Non-A, Non-B, Enterically-Transmitted
  • Hepatitis, Water Borne
  • Hepatitis, Water-Borne
  • Water-Borne Hepatitides
  • Water-Borne Hepatitis

Scope note

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

History note

  • 92

In other languages

  • maksatulehdus E

    Finnish

  • akut hepatit E
  • E-hepatiitti
  • E-maksatulehdus E
  • hepatiitti E
  • hepatiitti E -viruksen aiheuttama akuutti maksatulehdus
  • hepatitis E
  • hepatitis E acuta
  • HEV
  • Hepatit E

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016751

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