A case of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis e caused by blood from a donor infected with hepatitis e virus via zoonotic food-borne route

Transfusion

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1368-1375

  Matsubayashi, Keiji ^a   Kang, Jong Hon ^a   Sakata, Hidekatsu ^a   Takahashi, Kazuaki ^a   Shindo, Motohiro ^a   Kato, Masaru ^a   Sato, Shinichiro ^a   Kato, Toshiaki ^a   Nishimori, Hiroyuki ^a   Tsuji, Kunihiko ^a   Maguchi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yoshida, Jun Ichi ^a   Maekubo, Hiroshi ^a   Mishiro, Shunji ^a   Ikeda, Hisami ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; INTERFERON; PREDNISOLONE; VIRUS RNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PORK; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TIME; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 52049107114     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2008.01722.x     Document Type: Article

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