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Laboratory-based surveillance for hepatitis E virus infection, United States, 2005-2012
Drobeniuc J , Greene-Montfort T , Le NT , Mixson-Hayden TR , Ganova-Raeva L , Dong C , Novak RT , Sharapov UM , Tohme RA , Teshale E , Kamili S , Teo CG . Emerg Infect Dis 2013 19 (2) 218-22 To investigate characteristics of hepatitis E cases in the United States, we tested samples from persons seronegative for acute hepatitis A and B whose clinical specimens were referred to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during June 2005-March 2012 for hepatitis E virus (HEV) testing. We found that 26 (17%) of 154 persons tested had hepatitis E. Of these, 15 had not recently traveled abroad (nontravelers), and 11 had (travelers). Compared with travelers, nontravelers were older (median 61 vs. 32 years of age) and more likely to be anicteric (53% vs. 8%); the nontraveler group also had fewer persons of South Asian ethnicity (7% vs. 73%) and more solid-organ transplant recipients (47% vs. 0). HEV genotype 3 was characterized from 8 nontravelers and genotypes 1 or 4 from 4 travelers. Clinicians should consider HEV infection in the differential diagnosis of hepatitis, regardless of patient travel history. |
Serologic assays specific to immunoglobulin M antibodies against hepatitis E virus: pangenotypic evaluation of performances
Drobeniuc J , Meng J , Reuter G , Greene-Montfort T , Khudyakova N , Dimitrova Z , Kamili S , Teo CG . Clin Infect Dis 2010 51 (3) e24-7 Six immunoassays for detecting immunoglobulin M antibodies to hepatitis E virus were evaluated. Serum samples representing acute infection by each of the 4 viral genotypes as well as nonacute hepatitis E virus infection constituted the test panels. Diagnostic sensitivities and specificities as well as interassay agreement varied widely. Analytical sensitivity limits also were determined and were found to be particularly disparate. |
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