Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2014)

Hepatitis E Virus Infections in Blood Donors, France

  • Pierre Gallian,
  • Sébastien Lhomme,
  • Yves Piquet,
  • Karine Sauné,
  • Florence Abravanel,
  • Azzedine Assal,
  • Pierre Tiberghien,
  • Jacques Izopet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2011.140516
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 11
pp. 1914 – 1917

Abstract

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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.

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