Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Blood Donors, France

Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Blood Donors, France

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 negati...

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Main Authors: Pierre Gallian, Sébastien Lhomme, Yves Piquet, Karine Sauné, Florence Abravanel, Azzedine Assal, Pierre Tiberghien, Jacques Izopet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014-11-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
hepatitis E
hepatitis E virus
HEV
viruses
HEV RNA
viremia
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/11/14-0516_article

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