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Michael A. Purdy , Jan Felix Drexler , Xiang‐Jin Meng , Heléne Norder , Hiroaki Okamoto , Wim H. M. van der Poel , Gábor Reuter , William Marciel de Souza , Rainer G. Ulrich , Donald B. Smith ·

YOU? · · 2022 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001778 · OA: W4297457207

The family Hepeviridae includes enterically transmitted small quasi-enveloped or non-enveloped positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses infecting mammals and birds (subfamily Orthohepevirinae ) or fish ( Parahepevirinae ). Hepatitis E virus (genus Paslahepevirus ) is responsible for self-limiting acute hepatitis in humans; the infection may become chronic in immunocompromised individuals and extrahepatic manifestations have been described. Avian hepatitis E virus (genus Avihepevirus ) causes hepatitis–splenomegaly syndrome in chickens. This is a summary of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) Report on the family Hepeviridae , which is available at www.ictv.global/report/hepeviridae .