Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Blood Donors, France

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Authors

Pierre Gallian · Établissement Français du Sang

Sébastien Lhomme

Y. Piquet · Établissement Français du Sang

Karine Sauné · State Key Laboratory of Virology

Florence Abravanel · Centre de Physiopathologie de Toulouse-Purpan

Azzedine Assal · Universities Research Association

Pierre Tiberghien · Établissement Français du Sang

Abstract

We screened plasma samples (minipools of 96 samples, corresponding to 53,234 blood donations) from France that had been processed with solvent-detergent for hepatitis E virus RNA. The detection rate was 1 HEV-positive sample/2,218 blood donations. Most samples (22/24) from viremic donors were negative for IgG and IgM against HEV.

Topics & Keywords

Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology Liver Disease and Transplantation Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: Emerging infectious diseases

Volume 20, Issue 11, pp. 1914-1917

DOI: 10.3201/eid2011.140516

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