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HEV in Blood Donors in Switzerland: The Route to Safe Blood Products.
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) - 18 Oct 2024
Serricchio Mauro, Gowland Peter, Widmer Nadja, Stolz Martin, Niederhauser Christoph
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The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging infectious disease with zoonotic potential, causing acute hepatitis in humans. Infections in healthy individuals are often acute, self-limiting and asymptomatic, thus leading to the underdiagnosis of HEV infections. Asymptomatic HEV infections pose a problem for blood transfusion safety by increasing the risk for transfusion-transmitted HEV infections. Here, we describe...
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