KEGG DISEASE: Hepatitis E

DISEASE: Hepatitis E

Entry

H00415                      Disease

Name

Hepatitis E;
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection

Supergrp

Viral hepatitis [DS:H02162]
Fulminant hepatic failure [DS:H01712]

Description

Hepatitis E is an infectious disease caused by hepatitis E virus (HEV) belonging to the Hepeviridae family of +ssRNA viruses. HEV is transmitted through the fecal-oral route.

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
    H00415  Hepatitis E
   1E51  Chronic viral hepatitis
    H00415  Hepatitis E
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
  Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
   H00415  Hepatitis E
Infectious diseases by law in Japan [br08406.html]
H00415

Pathogen

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) [GN:T40067]

Other DBs

ICD-11:

1E50.4 1E51.3

MeSH:

D016751

Reference

PMID:19686410

Authors

Aggarwal R, Naik S

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