Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E in Germany, 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2014, Pages

  Huzly, D ^a   Umhau, M ^a   Bettinger, D ^a   Cathomen, T ^a   Emmerich, F ^a   Hasselblatt, P ^a   Hengel, H ^a   Herzog, R ^a   Kappert, O ^b   Maassen, S ^b   Schorb, E ^a   Schulz Huotari, C ^a   Thimme, R ^a   Unmussig R ^b   Wenzel, J J ^c   Panning, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Breisgau Hochschwarzwald   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AGED; APHERESIS; APHERESIS PLATELET; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; THROMBOCYTE; VIREMIA;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; CONTACT TRACING; GERMANY; HEPATITIS ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84901675836     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.21.20812     Document Type: Article

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