NCBI/NLM/NIH Entrez Glossary 19 May 1997

U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
NCBI/NLM/NIH Glossary

hepatitis e virus: A positive-stranded RNA virus causing enterically-transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis (HEPATITIS E). The morphological and physiochemical properties suggest that it is a member of the calicivirus family (CALICIVIRIDAE)