Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Blood Donors, France

Gallian, Pierre; Lhomme, Sébastien; Piquet, Y.; Sauné, Karine; Abravanel, Florence; Assal, Azzedine; Tiberghien, Pierre; Izopet, Jacques

doi:10.3201/eid2011.140516

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Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Blood Donors, France

Published in Emerging infectious diseases • Oct 3, 2014

Authors:

Pierre Gallian

Sébastien Lhomme

Y. Piquet

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 negati...

Subject

Hepatitis E virus

Virology

Hepatitis E

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