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E Naked H Hav Enveloped Virus Needed Envelope

Front Is the HAV an enveloped or naked virus?
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Naked virus 
If it needed an envelope, it would not survive stomach acid which disrupts viral envelope

"A & E - vowels hit your bowels"

Transmission
Feco-oral route 

Naked→ HAV, HEV
Enveloped→ HBV, HCV, HDV

Tags: microbiology

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