1. ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Hepeviridae
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Purdy, Michael A., Harrison, Tim J., Jameel, S., Meng, X.J., Okamoto, H., Van Der Poel, W.H.M., Smith, Donald B., Lefkowitz, Elliot J., Davison, Andrew J., Siddell, Stuart G., Simmonds, Peter, Adams, Michael J., Orton, Richard J., and Knowles, Nick J.
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0301 basic medicine ,Hepatitis, Viral, Human ,030106 microbiology ,Avian hepatitis E virus ,Orthohepevirus ,medicine.disease_cause ,Hepevirus ,Piscihepevirus ,ICTV ,03 medical and health sciences ,Hepatitis E virus ,Virology ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Swine hepatitis E virus ,Virus classification ,Taxonomy ,biology ,Family Hepeviridae ,Animal ,biology.organism_classification ,Hepeviridae ,ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles ,Virology & Molecular Biology ,Virologie & Moleculaire Biologie ,3. Good health ,030104 developmental biology ,Hepatitis, Viral, Animal ,Taxonomy (biology) ,Positive-strand RNA Viruses - Abstract
The family Hepeviridae includes enterically transmitted small non-enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses. It includes the genera Piscihepevirus, whose members infect fish, and Orthohepevirus, whose members infect mammals and birds. Members of the genus Orthohepevirus include hepatitis E virus, which is responsible for self-limiting acute hepatitis in humans and several mammalian species: the infection may become chronic in immunocompromised individuals. Extrahepatic manifestations of Guillain-Barre syndrome, neuralgic amyotrophy, glomerulonephritis and pancreatitis have been described in humans. Avian hepatitis E virus causes hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome in chickens. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the taxonomy of the Hepeviridae , which Is available at www.ictv.global/report/hepeviridae. Wellcome Trust [WT108418AIA] Production of this summary, the online chapter and associated resources was funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust (WT108418AIA).
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- 2017