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Novel approach for detection of hepatitis E virus infection in German blood donors.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2012
Vollmer Tanja, Diekmann Juergen, Johne Reimar, Eberhardt Matthias, Knabbe Cornelius, Dreier Jens
Abstract excerpt
The risk of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections by contaminated blood products remains unknown. In the present study, we evaluated and compared different nucleic acid amplification technique (NAT) methods for the detection of HEV in blood components. Minipools of a total of 16,125 individual blood donors were screened for the presence of HEV RNA using the highly sensitive RealStar HEV...
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