@article {4074,
	title = {Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E in Germany, 2013.},
	journal = {Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin//Euro Surveill},
	volume = {19},
	year = {2014},
	month = {2014},
	publisher = {Huzly,D. Institute for Virology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany.},
	address = {Sweden},
	abstract = {The reported IgG seroprevalence against hepatitis E virus (HEV) in German blood donations is 6.8\%, and HEV RNA detected in 0.08\%, but documented evidence for HEV transmission is lacking. We identified two donations from a single donor containing 120 IU HEV RNA/mL plasma and 490 IU/mL. An infectious dose of 7,056 IU HEV RNA was transmitted via apheresis platelets to an immunosuppressed patient who developed chronic HEV. Further, transmission was probable in an immunocompetent child.},
	keywords = {*Blood Transfusion/ae [Adverse Effects], *Hepatitis E virus/ip [Isolation \& Purification], *Hepatitis E/bl [Blood], *RNA, Viral/bl [Blood], Adult, Antibodies, Viral/bl [Blood], Blood Donors, Child, Contact Tracing, Germany, Hepatitis Antibodies/bl [Blood], Hepatitis E virus/ge [Genetics], Hepatitis E virus/im [Immunology], Hepatitis E/tm [Transmission], Hepatitis E/vi [Virology], Humans, Immunoglobulin G/bl [Blood], Retrospective Studies, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Viral/ge [Genetics]},
	isbn = {1560-7917},
	author = {Huzly, D and Umhau, M and Bettinger, D and Cathomen, T and Emmerich, F and Hasselblatt, P and Hengel, H and Herzog, R and Kappert, O and Maassen, S and Schorb, E and Schulz-Huotari, C and Thimme, R and Unmussig, R and Wenzel, J J and Panning, M}
}
