Risk of a blood donation contaminated with hepatitis E virus entering the blood supply before the implementation of universal RNA screening in France.

Josiane PillonelClaude MaugardCécile SommenJulie FigoniChloé PierreSophie LeCamPascale RichardPascal MorelPierre Gallian Syria Laperche

Published in: Vox sanguinis (2022)

The risk of an HEV-RNA-positive donation entering the blood supply was estimated at 1 in 1682 donations. This risk does not translate directly to the risk of HEV transfusion transmission, which mainly depends on the total number of viral particles in the transfused blood component and the sensitivity of NAT.

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