International collaborative survey on epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in 11 countries

• Main Authors: Kenji Abe, Tian Cheng Li, Xin Ding, Khin Maung Win, Pradeep Krishna Shrestha, Vo Xuan Quang, Trinh Thi Ngoc, Teresa Casanovas Taltavull, Andrei V. Smirnov, Vasily F. Uchaikin, Pairoj Luengrojanakul, Hongxi Gu, Abdel Rahman El-Zayadi, Alfred M. Prince, Kaoru Kikuchi, Naohiko Masaki, Ayano Inui, Tetsutaro Sata, Naokazu Takeda
• Other Authors: National Institute of Infectious Diseases
• Format: Review
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Medicine
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/23877
• Institution: Mahidol University

We conducted seroepidemiological studies on antibody prevalence to hepatitis E virus (HEV) in 5,233 sera from 11 countries to ascertain the present state of HEV infection on a global basis. The prevalence of anti-HEV IgG increased with age in these tested countries, but the rate of antibody positivi...