Past and present of hepatitis E in the Netherlands

Background Recent studies show that endemic hepatitis E virus ( HEV ) infection occurs frequently in some developed countries. In the N etherlands in 2013, the routine screening of 35,220 plasma donations for HEV RNA showed 20 donors to be viremic (1:1761), which seems to contradict reports of declining HEV seroprevalence in the recent past. Study Design and Methods To asses HEV infection pressure changes over time, archived samples from D utch blood donations collected in 1988 and 2000 were tested for anti‐ HEV immunoglobulin ( Ig ) G . The findings were compared to the HEV seroprevalence amo... Mehr ...