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

Hepatitis A: an epidemiological survey in blood donors, France 2015 to 2017.
Euro Surveill. 2018 May;23(21):
Authors: Gallian P, Barlet V, Mouna L, Gross S, Lecam S, Ricard C, Wind F, Pouchol E, Fabra C, Flan B, Visse C, Djoudi R, Couturier E, de Valk H, Tiberghien P, Roque-Afonso AM
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.
PMID: 29845926 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Euro Surveill - May 1, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Gallian P, Barlet V, Mouna L, Gross S, Lecam S, Ricard C, Wind F, Pouchol E, Fabra C, Flan B, Visse C, Djoudi R, Couturier E, de Valk H, Tiberghien P, Roque-Afonso AM Tags: Euro Surveill Source Type: research