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Hepatitis E in blood donors: investigation of the natural course of asymptomatic infection, Germany, 2011.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 1 Sept 2016
Vollmer Tanja, Diekmann Juergen, Eberhardt Matthias, Knabbe Cornelius, Dreier Jens
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Asymptomatic hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections have been found in blood donors from various European countries, but the natural course is rarely specified. Here, we compared the progression of HEV viraemia, serostatus and liver-specific enzymes in 10 blood donors with clinically asymptomatic genotype 3 HEV infection, measuring HEV RNA concentrations, plasma concentrations of alanine/aspartate aminotransferase,...
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