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Article: Research on hepatitis E virus detailed by C. Adlhoch and co-authors.
- Article from:
- Hepatitis Weekly
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Researchers detail in 'Indigenous hepatitis E virus infection of a plasma donor in Germany,' new data in hepatitis E virus. "Although Europe is supposed to be non-endemic for hepatitis E virus (HEV), locally acquired human cases are registered, and a relatively high prevalence for anti-HEV was found in blood donors in some European countries. Transfusion-transmitted infections by contaminated blood products were reported in Japan and sporadically in Europe," scientists in Berlin, Germany report (see also Hepatitis E Virus).
"Several samples from a plasma donor were screened with a highly sensitive quantitative HEV real-time polymerase chain reaction and the ...