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Hepatitis E prevalence in French Polynesian blood donors

The HEV seroprevalence in mainland France is elevated (22.4%). In contrast, anti-HEV seroprevalence appears to be lower in Oceania. However, none is available for French Polynesia. We assessed the anti-HEV IgG and IgM prevalence on samples from 300 consecutive blood donors living on Tahiti and Moore...

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Autores principales: Dimeglio, Chloé, Beau, Frédéric, Broult, Julien, Gouy, Patrice, Izopet, Jacques, Lastère, Stéphane, Abravanel, Florence
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6286134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30532225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208934
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author Dimeglio, Chloé
Beau, Frédéric
Broult, Julien
Gouy, Patrice
Izopet, Jacques
Lastère, Stéphane
Abravanel, Florence
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description The HEV seroprevalence in mainland France is elevated (22.4%). In contrast, anti-HEV seroprevalence appears to be lower in Oceania. However, none is available for French Polynesia. We assessed the anti-HEV IgG and IgM prevalence on samples from 300 consecutive blood donors living on Tahiti and Moorea islands. Epidemiological information was collected using a specific questionnaire. Overall IgM seroprevalence was 0.6% and overall IgG seroprevalence was 7.7%. The presence of anti-HEV IgG was associated with increasing age (p = 0.01), eating chicken offal (p = 0.01) and cooked rabbit (p = 0.02). Conversely, eating fafaru—traditional Polynesian condiment—was associated with a lower rate of anti-HEV IgG (p<0.01).). All donors who surfed or practiced va’a (traditional outrigger canoë) were HEV seronegative. The Polynesian lifestyle and the particular food consumption patterns—especially the very well cooked pork—may be the key to understand the low HEV seroprevalence in French Polynesia.
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spelling pubmed-62861342018-12-28 Hepatitis E prevalence in French Polynesian blood donors Dimeglio, Chloé Beau, Frédéric Broult, Julien Gouy, Patrice Izopet, Jacques Lastère, Stéphane Abravanel, Florence PLoS One Research Article The HEV seroprevalence in mainland France is elevated (22.4%). In contrast, anti-HEV seroprevalence appears to be lower in Oceania. However, none is available for French Polynesia. We assessed the anti-HEV IgG and IgM prevalence on samples from 300 consecutive blood donors living on Tahiti and Moorea islands. Epidemiological information was collected using a specific questionnaire. Overall IgM seroprevalence was 0.6% and overall IgG seroprevalence was 7.7%. The presence of anti-HEV IgG was associated with increasing age (p = 0.01), eating chicken offal (p = 0.01) and cooked rabbit (p = 0.02). Conversely, eating fafaru—traditional Polynesian condiment—was associated with a lower rate of anti-HEV IgG (p<0.01).). All donors who surfed or practiced va’a (traditional outrigger canoë) were HEV seronegative. The Polynesian lifestyle and the particular food consumption patterns—especially the very well cooked pork—may be the key to understand the low HEV seroprevalence in French Polynesia. Public Library of Science 2018-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6286134/ /pubmed/30532225 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208934 Text en © 2018 Dimeglio et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Broult, Julien
Gouy, Patrice
Izopet, Jacques
Lastère, Stéphane
Abravanel, Florence
Hepatitis E prevalence in French Polynesian blood donors
title Hepatitis E prevalence in French Polynesian blood donors
title_full Hepatitis E prevalence in French Polynesian blood donors
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title_short Hepatitis E prevalence in French Polynesian blood donors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6286134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30532225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208934
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