Hepatitis A Virus
Study findings from Center for Infections provide new insights into hepatitis a virus
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 11th, 2006
New research, "Hepatitis A surveillance in England--how many cases are not reported and does it really matter," is the subject of a report. "Underreporting of hepatitis A infection in U.K. may be high and a number of outbreaks have occurred undetected by routine surveillance. We evaluated surveillance of hepatitis A cases by employing capture-recapture analysis on data from two distinct outbreaks of hepatitis A," scientists writing in the journal Epidemiology and Infection report.
"The overall reporting of cases of hepatitis A was 81.7% (95% CI 55.3-95) in the first outbreak in North East U.K. and reporting through Lab Base was 65.7% (95% CI 42.8-76.4). In the...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2006-12-11)
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