Risk assessment of hepatitis E transmission through tissue allografts

Table 1 Rates of anti-hepatitis E virus immunoglobulin G positivity in blood donors by country

Country	IgG positive rate (%)	Ref.
Argentina	11.3	Di Lello et al[33]
Austria	13.5	Fischer et al[34]
Bolivia	16.2	Konomi et al[35]
Brazil	7	Tengan et al[36]
China	30	Zhang et al[37]
Croatia	20.2	Miletić et al[38]
England	10	Beale et al[39]
France	22.4	Mansuy et al[40]
India	17.7	Tripathy et al[41]
Iran	8.1	Hesamizadeh et al[42]
Italy	8.7	Spada et al[43]
New Zealand	9.7	Hewitt et al[44]
Norway	14	Lange et al[45]
Poland	43.5	Grabarczyk et al[46]
Scotland	9.3	Thom et al[47]
Serbia	15	Petrović et al[48]
South Africa	42.8	Maponga et al[49]
Switzerland	20.4	Niederhauser et al[50]
Thailand	29.7	Jupattanasin et al[51]
The Netherlands	24	Alberts et al[52]
Uruguay	10	Bangueses et al[53]
United States	9.5	Stramer et al[54]

IgG: Immunoglobulin G.