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Light and Darkness: Prevalence of Hepatitis E Virus Infection among the General Population
Table 4
Prevalence of anti-HHEV among the general population of the Americas.
| | Country | Number of samples | Anti-HHEV rate (%) | Reference | | Children | Adults | Overall |
| | USA | 18695 | 1.0–5.0 | 39–42 | 21 | [10] | | USA (Texas) | 864 | — | 0.4–1.6 | — | [42] | | Canada (Inuit) | 393 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 3.0 | [103] | | Greenland (Inuit) | 503 | — | 3.0 | — | [104] | | Venezuela (urban) | 184 | — | 1.6 | — | | | Venezuela (rural) | 204 | — | — | 3.9 | [50] | | Venezuela (Amerindians) | 223 | — | 5.4 | — | | | 463 | — | 9.7 | — | [51] | | Nicaragua | 399 | — | 4.6–8.0 | — | [105] | | Argentina | 1304 | 0.15 | — | — | [106] | | Chile | 168 | 1.2 | — | — | [107] | | Chile (Amerindians) | 100 | — | 17.0 | — | [108] | | Bolivia (rural) | 490 | — | 7.3 | — | [109] | | Bolivia (rural) | 186 | — | 20 | — | | | Bolivia (urban) | 193 | 66 | 31 | 49 | [49] | | Bolivia (Amazon) | 318 | 0–14 | 7.0–30 | 20 | | | Mexico | 3549 | 1.1 | 14 | 10 | [110] | | Brazil | 1196 | 4.5 | — | — | [111] | | Cuba | 209 | — | 5.3 | — | [61] | | 469 | — | 10.0 | — | [112] |
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