Volume 16, Number 11—November 2010
Dispatch
Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Sheltered Homeless Persons, France
Mamadou Kaba, Philippe Brouqui, Hervé Richet, Sekené Badiaga, Pierre Gallian, Didier Raoult, and Philippe Colson
Table
Age, duration of homelessness, and liver biochemical test results for 490 homeless persons, Marseilles, France, 2003, 2005, and 2006*
| Variable | HEV IgM |
HEV IgG |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Negative | p value | Positive | Negative | p value | ||
| Age, y, mean ± SD | 37 ± 12 | 43 ± 14 | 0.13 | 45 ± 15 | 43 ± 14 | 0.24 | |
| Duration of homelessness, mo, mean ± SD | 39 ± 38 | 49 ± 85 | 0.36 | 48 ± 78 | 49 ± 85 | 0.28 | |
| Liver biochemical tests,† mean ± SD, IU/L | |||||||
| Alanine aminotransferase levels‡ | 93 ± 119 | 32 ± 31 | 0.99 | 36 ± 32 | 32 ± 33 | 0.49 | |
| Aspartate aminotransferase levels§ | 49 ± 54 | 34 ± 43 | 0.99 | 34 ± 32 | 34 ± 44 | 0.79 | |
| γ-Glutamyl transferase¶ | 401 ± 547 | 65 ± 137 | 0.92 | 76 ± 136 | 68 ± 147 | 0.44 | |
*HEV, hepatitis E virus; Ig, immunoglobulin.
†Assessed only in 2005 for 209 homeless persons.
‡Data missing for 11 persons.
§Data missing for 10 persons.
¶Data missing for 9 persons.
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