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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2018

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Scotland: evidence of recent increase in viral circulation in humans.

Katrina Thom, Pamela Gilhooly, Karen McGowan, Kristen Malloy, Lisa M Jarvis, Claire Crossan, Linda Scobie, Oliver Blatchford, Alison Smith-Palmer, Mhairi C Donnelly and 5 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. Hepatitis E virus infections in German blood donors: results of 8 years of screening, 2015 to 2022.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024
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  14. Transmission of Hepatitis E Virus.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023
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  17. Prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis E virus infection in blood donors: a nationwide survey in Italy, 2017 to 2019.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2022
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  19. Risk assessment of hepatitis E transmission through tissue allografts.World journal of gastrointestinal pathophysiology · 2022
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  20. Transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E: What we know so far?World journal of gastroenterology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Katrina ThomScottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Pamela GilhoolyScottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Karen McGowanScottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Kristen MalloyScottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Lisa M JarvisScottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Claire CrossanDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Linda ScobieDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Oliver BlatchfordDepartment of Public Health, Glasgow University, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Alison Smith-PalmerHealth Protection Scotland, National Services Scotland, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Mhairi C DonnellyDepartment of Hepatology, Division of Health Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Janice S DavidsonScottish Liver Transplantation Unit, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Ingolfur JohannessenDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Kenneth J SimpsonDepartment of Hepatology, Division of Health Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Harry R DaltonRoyal Cornwall Hospital and European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Truro, United Kingdom.
Juraj PetrikScottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BackgroundPrevious studies showed low levels of circulating hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Scotland. We aimed to reassess current Scottish HEV epidemiology.

Indexed as

Blood DonorsAdolescentAdultFemaleGenotypeHepatitis AntibodiesHepatitis EHepatitis E virusHumansImmunoglobulin GIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedPhylogenyReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, ViralHepatitis AntibodiesImmunoglobulin GRNA, Viralblood donorsepidemiologyHepatitis E virus (HEV)incidenceseroprevalencezoonosis

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PMID29589577
PMCPMC6205259

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