Transmission

Hepatitis A Infection Spread Within Family Despite Child's Vaccination

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, August 14th, 2000

Researchers in Germany recently described a case in which the family of a young girl who had been vaccinated against the hepatitis A virus subsequently became infected.

In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, A. Bertram Fleming, MD, PhD, Andrea Normann, PhD, both of the University of Tubingen Hygiene Institute, and Daniela Bohnen, MD, reported the case of a five-year-old girl who had been vaccinated against the hepatitis A virus (HAV) after a classmate was diagnosed with acute hepatitis A. The girl had no clinical signs of illness before or after immunization, the researchers noted.

The child's sister, mother, and father exhibited...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2000-08-14)

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