Hepatitis e virus in blood components: A prevalence and transmission study in southeast England

The Lancet

Volumn 384, Issue 9956, 2014, Pages 1766-1773

  Hewitt, Patricia E ^a   Ijaz, Samreen ^b   Brailsford, Su R ^a,c   Brett, Rachel ^a   Dicks, Steven ^a,b   Haywood, Becky ^b   Kennedy, Iain T R ^c   Kitchen, Alan ^a   Patel, Poorvi ^a,b   Poh, John ^b   Russell, Katherine ^c   Tettmar, Kate I ^a,b   Tossell, Joanne ^a   Ushiro Lumb, Ines ^a,b   Tedder, Richard S ^a,b,d  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBAVIRIN; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD DONOR; FOLLOW UP; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POSTTRANSFUSION HEPATITIS; PREVALENCE; RECIPIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRAL CLEARANCE; VIREMIA; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84911369475     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61034-5     Document Type: Article

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