2024
DOI: 10.3390/v16040526
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Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Voluntary Blood Donors in the Russian Federation

Ilya A. Potemkin,
Karen K. Kyuregyan,
Anastasia A. Karlsen
et al.

Abstract: Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is an increasing concern in many countries. We investigated the detection rate of HEV viremia in blood donors in Russia. A total of 20,405 regular repetitive voluntary non-renumerated blood donors from two regions (Moscow and Belgorod) were screened for HEV RNA using the cobas® HEV test in mini-pools of six plasma samples. Samples from each reactive pool were tested individually. The average HEV RNA prevalence was 0.024% (95% CI: 0.01–0.05%), or 1 case … Show more

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