“…The transmission of HPgV is parenteral, and is highly prevalent in patients exposed to transfused blood (and its components), and in intravenous drug users [Gutierrez et al, ; Shrestha et al, ; Liu et al, ; Desai et al, ]. Hemodialysis patients, patients that have undergone organ transplantation, as well as post‐transfusion hepatitis patients, carry a high load of the virus [Masuko et al, ; Tsuda et al, ; Sugai et al, ; Ross et al, ; Komatsu et al, ; Hitzler and Runkel, ]. Furthermore, the virus can be sexually transmitted [Tanaka et al, ; Ibanez et al, ; Hattori et al, ], as well as vertically from mother to child, and intra‐familially [Viazov et al, ; Zanetti et al, ; Ohto et al, ].…”