单词 | hepatitis a virus |
释义 | > as lemmashepatitis A virus hepatitis A n. an acute and self-limited form of viral hepatitis often occurring in epidemics, spread by contaminated water and food or by personal contact; (more fully hepatitis A virus) the virus (a small RNA virus related to the picornaviruses) causing this.Hepatitis A was originally known as infectious hepatitis. ΚΠ 1947 Lancet 8 Nov. 692/1 MacCallum suggests that the viruses responsible for the two forms of hepatitis should be called hepatitis viruses A and B.] 1971 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 218 1665/1 This discrepancy may be due to at least the following two factors: (1) variations in the type and intensity of exposure to hepatitis A and B viruses, [etc.]. 1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) iii. 354 The disease due to hepatitis A is often termed infectious hepatitis (though all three forms are infectious), while hepatitis B and non-A, non-B constitute the agents of serum hepatitis. 1996 Big Issue 19 Aug. 9/2 (table) Hepatitis A is found worldwide, often associated with poor hygiene and contamination of food and water. 2004 Global May 20/2 It's also worth taking shots for cholera, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis A and B and typhoid. < as lemmas |
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