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. 2016 Jun 28;22(24):5568–5577. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i24.5568

Table 5.

Hepatitis E virus in industrialized countries1

Ref. No. of patients Travel related Autochthonous
Norder et al[27] 248 88.3% 11.7%
Romanò et al[14] 134 81.3% 18.7%
Ramalingam et al[28] 16 62.5% 37.5%
Israel (current paper) 68 44.0%2 41.0%
Drobeniuc et al[29] 26 42.0% 58.0%
Chalupa et al[13] 49 3.90% 96.1%
Mansuy et al[30] 62 3.20% 96.8%

1A Literature review of the prevalence of HEV infection in industrialized countries[13,14,27-30];

2

the rest 15% were foreign workers. HEV: Hepatitis E virus.