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Prevalence of hepatitis E virus infection among hemodialysis patients in Japan: evidence for infection with a genotype 3 HEV by blood transfusion.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Dec 2004
Mitsui Takehiro, Tsukamoto Yukie, Yamazaki Chikao, Masuko Kazuo, Tsuda Fumio, Takahashi Masaharu, Nishizawa Tsutomu, Okamoto Hiroaki
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the prevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection among patients on maintenance hemodialysis, serum samples collected in January 2003 from 416 patients who had been undergoing hemodialysis for 7.6 +/- 6.3 (mean +/- standard deviation) (range, 0.3-26.0) years in a dialysis unit in Japan and serum samples that had been collected from these patients at the start of hemodialysis were tested for IgG...
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