First confirmed case of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis E in Australia

Hoad, Veronica C; Gibbs, Tristan; Ravikumara, Madhur; Nash, Monica; Levy, Avram; Tracy, Samantha L; Mews, Catherine; Perkowska-Guse, Zofia; Faddy, Helen M; Bowden, Scott

doi:10.5694/mja16.01090

Topics

Digestive system diseases

Hematologic diseases

Clinical record

1 Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Perth, WA
2 PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, Perth, WA
3 Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, WA
4 Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Sydney, NSW
5 Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Melbourne, VIC
6 Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Brisbane, QLD

Correspondence: vhoad@redcrossblood.org.au

Acknowledgements:

We thank the donor and the recipient and family for agreeing to the publication of this article. We thank Ashish Shrestha for viral load testing and Anthony Keller and George Kotsiou for their comments on the manuscript. Australian governments fund the Australian Red Cross Blood Service to provide blood, blood products and services to the Australian community.

Competing interests:

No relevant disclosures.

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