Seroprevalence of hepatitis e virus among blood donors in omdurman locality sudan alaaeldeen balal ahmed a and yousif fadlalla hamedelnil b a omdurman islamic university faculty of medical laboratory science department of microbiology khartoum sudan b college of medical laboratory science sudan university of science and technology. Hepatitis e virus hev is a small nonenveloped rna virus from the hepeviridae family it is a main cause of acute hepatitis which is usually a self limiting infection 1 3 in immunocompromised subjects hev can become persistent or chronic and can lead to serious consequences such as fulminant hepatitis 4 although the main route of transmission is the fecal oral route vertical . Background hepatitis e virus hev is an emerging zoonotic pathogen and an important cause of acute viral hepatitis in european countries corsica island has been previously identified as a hyperendemic area for hev aim our aim was to characterise the prevalence and titres of igg antibodies to hev among blood donors on corsica and establish a model of the annual force of infection. Seroprevalence and incidence of hepatitis e virus among blood donors a review al sadeq dw1 majdalawieh af2 nasrallah gk13 author information 1department of biomedical science college of health sciences qatar university doha qatar. Seroprevalence of hepatitis e virus among blood donors on corsica france 2017 in corsican natives increasing seroprevalence by age could be explained by models capturing a loss of immunity annual probability of infection 45 duration of immunity 55 years or by age specific probabilities of infection 38 for children 13 for