Volume 18, Number 5—May 2012
Dispatch
Hepatitis E Virus Infection among Solid Organ Transplant Recipients, the Netherlands
Table 1
Overview of HEV infections among SOT recipients, the Netherlands, 2000–2011*
SOT group | No. recipients | HEV infections, no. (%) |
|
---|---|---|---|
Confirmed | Chronic | ||
HTX | 259 | 5 (1.9) | 5 (1.9) |
LungTX | 53 | 1 (1.9) | 1 (1.9) |
LTX | 300 | 3 (1.0) | 3 (1.0) |
NTX | 574 | 1 (0.2) | 1 (0.2) |
Multiple SOT† | 14 | 2 (14.3) | 1 (7.1) |
Total | 1,200 | 12 (1.0) | 11 (0.9) |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus; SOT, solid organ transplant; HTX, heart transplant; lungTX, lung transplant; LTX, liver transplant; NTX, kidney transplant.
†9 NTX–LTX, 4 NTX–HTX, and 1 NTX–lungTx.