Hepatitis e virus infections in blood donors, france.

Pierre Gallian (1) , Sébastien Lhomme (2) , Yves Piquet (1) , Karine Sandres-Sauné (3) , Florence Legrand-Abravanel (4, 5) , Azzedine Assal (6) , Pierre Tiberghien (7, 8) , Jacques Izopet

1 EFS - Alpes-Méditerranée - Etablissement Français du Sang - Alpes-Méditerranée
2 EIVP - Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris
3 Laboratory of Virology
4 CPTP - Centre de Physiopathologie Toulouse Purpan
5 Virology
6 URA 1164
7 Unité de Thérapie Cellulaire
8 etablissement francais du sang

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.

Domaines: Hématologie

Pierre Gallian, Sébastien Lhomme, Yves Piquet, Karine Sandres-Sauné, Florence Legrand-Abravanel, et al.. Hepatitis e virus infections in blood donors, france.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014, pp.1914-7. ⟨hal-01084854⟩