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Hepatitis E risks: pigs or blood-that is the question.

Transfusion - 1 Feb 2017

Tedder Richard S, Ijaz Samreen, Kitchen Alan, Ushiro-Lumb Ines, Tettmar Kate I, Hewitt Patricia, Andrews Nick

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BACKGROUND: Infection with hepatitis E virus (HEV) Genotype 3 is recognized as a food-borne zoonosis in developed countries where it usually causes a mild self-limited acute hepatitis. It may cause a persistent infection in the immunosuppressed human that can progress to cirrhosis. To protect the patient from transfusion-acquired HEV infection, steps have been taken in the United Kingdom to provide for at-risk...

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PMID: 28194857
DOI: 10.1111/trf.13976

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