Hepatitis D is caused by hepatitis D virus (HDV), also called hepatitis delta virus, which is a satellite that can infect human only in the presence of hepatitis B virus (HBV).
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Viral hepatitis
1E50 Acute viral hepatitis
H00414 Hepatitis D
1E51 Chronic viral hepatitis
H00414 Hepatitis D
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H00414 Hepatitis D
Infectious diseases by law in Japan [br08406.html]
H00414