Hepatitis E virus seroprevalence among blood donors in Pune, India.

Anuradha S TripathyShaila PuranikMeenal SharmaSambuddha ChakrabortyUjwal R Devakate

Published in: Journal of medical virology (2018)

HEV prevalence rate of 17.70% in the blood donors of Pune, India, a developing country, goes at par with the developed countries. Current data of 0.20% (5 of 2447) blood donors positive for anti-HEV IgM and two of them being HEV RNA positive suggest a need for consideration of cost-effective evaluation towards pooled HEV RNA testing in blood banks.

Keyphrases

risk factors
electronic health record
nucleic acid
clinical trial
machine learning