The prevalence of HEV among non-A-C hepatitis in Qatar and efficiency of serological markers for the diagnosis of hepatitis E.
Enas S Al AbsiDuaa W Al-SadeqMakiyeh KhaliliNadin YounesNader Al-DewikSara K AbdelghanySomaia S AbouzidAsma A Al ThaniHadi M YassinePeter V CoyleGheyath K NasrallahPublished in: BMC gastroenterology (2021)
Our study demonstrated a high prevalence of HEV virus in Qatar, mostly among immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. The HEV-IgM represents the best marker for detecting the acute HEV infection, where RT-PCR cannot be performed.