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. 2018 May;23(21):1800237.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.21.1800237.

Hepatitis A: an epidemiological survey in blood donors, France 2015 to 2017

Pierre Gallian  1   2 , Valérie Barlet  3 , Lina Mouna  4 , Sylvie Gross  5 , Sophie Lecam  6 , Céline Ricard  7 , Françoise Wind  8 , Elodie Pouchol  5 , Cécile Fabra  1 , Benoit Flan  9 , Catherine Visse  9 , Rachid Djoudi  5 , Elisabeth Couturier  10 , Henriette de Valk  10 , Pierre Tiberghien  11   5 , Anne-Marie Roque-Afonso  4
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Hepatitis A: an epidemiological survey in blood donors, France 2015 to 2017

Pierre Gallian et al. Euro Surveill. 2018 May.

Abstract

Since mid-2016, hepatitis A virus (HAV) outbreaks, involving predominantly men who have sex with men (MSM), have affected countries in Europe and overseas. In France, HAV screening of blood donations in 2017 revealed a HAV-RNA prevalence ca fivefold higher than during 2015-16 (4.42/106 vs 0.86/106; p = 0.0005). In 2017, despite a higher male-to-female ratio (5.5 vs 0.7) and the identification of MSM-associated outbreak strains, only one of 11 infected male donors self-reported being a MSM.

Keywords: France; blood donors; epidemiology; food-borne infections; hepatitis A virus; laboratory surveillance; men who have sex with men - MSM; outbreaks; sexually transmitted infections; viral infections.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Monthly number of laboratory-confirmed hepatitis A cases stratified by cases in the general population and hepatitis A virus-RNA positive blood donations, France, 2017 (n = 3,389)
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