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SUBMITTER: Gerardin P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6831862 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gérardin Patrick P Porphyre Vincent V Tsatoromila Anita A Cuissard Laurent L Becquart Jean-Philippe JP Boussaid Karim K Bertolotti Antoine A Naze Florence F Picot Sandrine S Filleul Laurent L Tortosa Pablo P Jaubert Julien J Guernier Vanina V Pascalis Hervé H
One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 20191023
<h4>Objective</h4>Hepatitis E virus (HEV) has been scarcely investigated in the Indian Ocean. Following a nationwide serosurvey among blood donors, we conducted a population-based serosurvey to assess the magnitude of HEV exposure on Reunion Island.<h4>Methods</h4>Four hundred and sixty-six archived frozen human sera from the 2009 CoPanFlu-RUN cohort were analysed using the Wantai HEV IgG enzyme immunoassay. HEV seropositivity was defined as an IgG titre ≥5 UI/ml. Raw and weighted seroprevalence ...[more]