RT Book, Section
A1 Levinson, Warren
A1 Chin-Hong, Peter
A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A.
A1 Nussbaum, Jesse
A1 Schwartz, Brian
SR Print(0)
ID 1182571422
T1 Hepatitis Viruses
T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 16e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260116717
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182571422
RD 2024/10/11
AB Many  viruses  cause  hepatitis.  Of  these,  five  medically  important  viruses  are  commonly  described  as  “hepatitis  viruses”  because  their  main  site  of  infection  is  the  liver.  These  five  are  hepatitis  A  virus  (HAV),  hepatitis  B  virus  (HBV),  hepatitis  C  virus  (HCV),  hepatitis  D  virus  (HDV,  delta  virus),  and  hepatitis  E  virus  (HEV)  (Tables  41–1  and  41–2).  Other  viruses,  such  as  Epstein–Barr  virus  (the  cause  of  infectious  mononucleosis),  cytomegalovirus,  and  yellow  fever  virus,  infect  the  liver  but  also  infect  other  sites  in  the  body  and  therefore  are  not  exclusively  hepatitis  viruses.  They  are  discussed  elsewhere.