hepatitis E virus infection
MONDO:0005788Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names hepatitis E virus infection yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
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.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005788), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: hepatitis E virus infection
- Also called
- Hepatitis E virus caused hepatitisHepatitis E virus hepatitishepatitis type E