caa a22 4500 475832264 CHVBK 20180406123843.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s100960050482 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s100960050482 Prevalence of Hepatitis E Antibodies in Immigrants from Developing Countries [Elektronische Daten] [D. Tarragó, R. López-Vélez, C. Turrientes, F. Baquero, M. L. Mateos]  The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of anti-hepatitis E virus (HEV) antibodies among indigenous Spanish blood donors and immigrants from developing countries in order to determine whether immigrants pose a significant risk for the transmission of HEV to the healthy Spanish population. The seroprevalence of HEV was determined in a cohort of 90 asymptomatic immigrants (mostly from countries in sub-Saharan Africa) who had recently arrived in Madrid, Spain, and in 863 blood donors, who represented the healthy Spanish population. The results showed that the prevalence of HEV antibodies was 1.9 times higher in the immigrants than in the blood donors (5.5% in immigrants, 95% CI 1.8-12.4; 2.9% in blood donors, 95% CI 1.9-4.2). Combined with the estimated population figures of 300,000 undocumented immigrants versus 39,000,000 Spaniards, these results indicate that sub-Saharan immigrants cannot currently be considered a major risk source for the transmission of HEV in Spain. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Tarragó D. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut López-Vélez R. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut Turrientes C. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut Baquero F. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut Mateos M. L. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s100960050482 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s100960050482 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tarragó D. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- López-Vélez R. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Turrientes C. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baquero F. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mateos M. L. Virology and Tropical Medicine Units, Microbiology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain e-mail: davtarrago@hotmail.com, ES aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer