Hemophilia

Data on hemophilia detailed by H. Toyoda and co-authors

Published in Blood Weekly, June 19th, 2008

According to recent research from Ogaki, Japan, "We investigated the prevalence of antibody against hepatitis E virus (HEV) in Japanese patients with hemophilia. IgG antibody against HEV was measured in serum of 80 Japanese patients with hemophilia by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay."

"The prevalence of HEV antibody was compared with the reported prevalence of HEV antibody in Japanese patients undergoing hemodialysis and in Japanese healthy blood donors. Characteristics of patients and coinfection with other transfusion-transmissible viruses were compared in patients with and without HEV antibody. Anti-HEV IgG antibody was detected in 13 of 80 patients (16.3%). The...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-06-19)

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