Hepatitis E in Israel: A nation-wide retrospective study

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];

²the rest 15% were foreign workers. HEV: Hepatitis E virus.