"Seroepidemiology of Hepatitis E in Selected Australian Populations."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Medical Virology, "The presence of hepatitis E virus-specific antibodies (anti-HEV) was determined in selected Australian groups. Anti-HEV was detected initially using a recombinant antigen-based enzyme immunoassay (EIA). It was found that 1 of 279 (0.4%) blood donors, 14 of 182 (7.7%) Indochinese refugees, 2 of 89 (2.2%) sera submitted for amoebic serology (generally people who had visited developing countries), 1 of 13 (7.7%) patients with non-A, non-B hepatitis, none of 7 (0%) patients with fulminant non-A, non-B hepatitis, and none of 33 (0%) control sera were repeatedly reactive by the HEV EIA. The positive...

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