HEV in Blood Donors in Switzerland: The Route to Safe Blood Products

The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging infectious disease with zoonotic potential, causing acute hepatitis in humans. Infections in healthy individuals are often acute, self-limiting and asymptomatic, thus leading to the underdiagnosis of HEV infections. Asymptomatic HEV infections pose a proble...

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Published in:	Pathogens (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 10; p. 911
Main Authors:	Serricchio, Mauro, Gowland, Peter, Widmer, Nadja, Stolz, Martin, Niederhauser, Christoph
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Switzerland MDPI AG 01.10.2024 MDPI
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Aged Analysis Animals Blood & organ donations Blood donors Blood Donors - statistics & numerical data Blood products Blood Safety Blood transfusion Blood transfusions Care and treatment Chronic illnesses Complications and side effects Decision making Diagnosis Disease transmission epidemiology Female Genomes Genotype Genotypes Health aspects Hepatitis Hepatitis E Hepatitis E - blood Hepatitis E - epidemiology Hepatitis E - transmission hepatitis E virus Hepatitis E virus - genetics Hepatitis E virus - isolation & purification HEV Humans Immunocompromised host Infections infectious disease Infectious diseases Male Meat products Middle Aged Nucleic acids Prevention Risk factors RNA, Viral - blood RNA, Viral - genetics Seroepidemiologic Studies Serology seroprevalence Switzerland - epidemiology Transfusion Young Adult Zoonoses Switzerland Europe blood donors epidemiology transfusion safety hepatitis E virus infectious disease HEV seroprevalence surveillance Switzerland genotype
ISSN:	2076-0817, 2076-0817
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