Persisting higher prevalence of hepatitis A virus RNA in blood donors, France, 2018

Pierre Gallian; Valérie Barlet; Lina Mouna; Sylvie Gross; Pascal Morel; Sophie Le Cam; Céline Ricard; Claude Maugard; Elodie Pouchol; Benoit Flan; Catherine Visse; Rachid Djoudi; Julie Figoni; Henriette De Valk; Pierre Tiberghien; Anne-Marie Roque-Afonso

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Persisting higher prevalence of hepatitis A virus RNA in blood donors, France, 2018
Pierre Gallian^1,2 , Valérie Barlet³ , Lina Mouna⁴ , Sylvie Gross⁵ , Pascal Morel⁵ , Sophie Le Cam⁶ , Céline Ricard⁷ , Claude Maugard⁸ , Elodie Pouchol⁵ , Benoit Flan⁹ , Catherine Visse⁹ , Rachid Djoudi⁵ , Julie Figoni¹⁰ , Henriette De Valk¹⁰ , Pierre Tiberghien^5,11 , Anne-Marie Roque-Afonso⁴
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Affiliations: ¹ Etablissement Français du Sang Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur et Corse, Marseille, France ² Unité des Virus Emergents (UVE: Aix-Marseille Univ – IRD 190 – Inserm 1207 – IHU Méditerranée Infection), Marseille, France ³ Etablissement Français du Sang Auvergne Rhône Alpes, Beynost, France ⁴ AP-HP, Hôpital Paul Brousse, Virologie, CNR des Virus des hépatites à transmission entérique, INSERM U1993, Villejuif, France ⁵ Etablissement Français du Sang, Saint Denis-La Plaine Stade de France, France ⁶ Etablissement Français du Sang Centre Pays de Loire, Nantes, France ⁷ Etablissement Français du Sang Haut de France, Lille, France ⁸ Etablissement Français du Sang Occitanie, Toulouse, France ⁹ LFB Biomédicaments, Courtaboeuf, France ¹⁰ Santé publique France, French national public health agency, Saint-Maurice, France ¹¹ Université de Franche-Comté, Inserm, Etablissement Français du Sang, UMR 1098, Besançon, France

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Citation style for this article: Gallian Pierre, Barlet Valérie, Mouna Lina, Gross Sylvie, Morel Pascal, Le Cam Sophie, Ricard Céline, Maugard Claude, Pouchol Elodie, Flan Benoit, Visse Catherine, Djoudi Rachid, Figoni Julie, De Valk Henriette, Tiberghien Pierre, Roque-Afonso Anne-Marie. Persisting higher prevalence of hepatitis A virus RNA in blood donors, France, 2018. Euro Surveill. 2019;24(47):pii=1900695. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.47.1900695 Received: 13 Nov 2019; Accepted: 21 Nov 2019

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