| hepatitis e virus infection without reactivation in solid-organ transplant recipients, france. | infections with hepatitis e virus (hev) in solid-organ transplant recipients can lead to chronic hepatitis. however, the incidence of de novo hev infections after transplantation and risk for reactivation in patients with antibodies against hev before transplantation are unknown. pretransplant prevalence of these antibodies in 700 solid-organ transplant recipients at toulouse university hospital in france was 14.1%. we found no hev reactivation among patients with antibodies against hev at the f ... | 2011 | 21192851 |
| hepatitis e virus excretion can be prolonged in patients with hematological malignancies. | hepatitis e virus (hev) is transmitted via the fecal-oral route and locally acquired sporadic hepatitis e can occur in western countries. chronic hepatitis e virus infections have been recently described in solid organ transplant recipients. there is little data on the evolution of hepatitis e in patients immunocompromised for other reasons. | 2010 | 20678959 |
| hepatitis e in the south west of france in individuals who have never visited an endemic area. | a total of 431 consecutive patients from the midi pyrenees area with acute hepatitis with unknown etiology in 2001-2002 were tested for the presence of immunoglobulin g-class (igg) anti-hepatitis e virus (hev) antibodies. forty-six (10.7%) had anti-hev igg, and the results were questionable for a further 17 (3.9%). real time pcr based on taqman detection was used to identify hev genome fragments in the serum of patients with positive or questionable anti-hev serology. hev rna was found in 25.4% ... | 2004 | 15368508 |
| high prevalence of anti-hepatitis e virus antibodies in blood donors from south west france. | cases of autochthonous acute hepatitis e occur in most industrialized countries and are frequent in the south west of france. the prevalence of anti-hepatitis e virus (hev) igg antibodies in blood donors in this area was determined. a total of 529 samples from rural and urban blood donors were tested. the overall prevalence was 16.6%, 19.1% of rural donors and 14.2% of urban donors had anti-hev antibodies (p = 0.13). the antibodies were widely distributed among all age groups and the sex ratio o ... | 2008 | 18098159 |