Image of the Week for March 10, 2008
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Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E. This electron micrograph depicts hepatitis-E viruses (HEV), provisionally classified as members of the Caliciviridae family. Hepatitis E virus (HEV), the major etiologic agent of enterically transmitted non-A, non-B hepatitis worldwide, is a spherical, non-enveloped, single stranded RNA virus that is approximately 32nm - 34nm in diameter.
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