Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 18th, 2009
"We conducted an outbreak investigation which included a matched case-control study to analyse the association with a range of food items and food providers. A phylogenetic analysis was used to study the relation between the outbreak cases and the identified source. We registered 269 cases of hepatitis A. Consumption of raw beef (OR 16.0: 95% CI 2.1-120.7) was the most probable way of infection. A food handler working at an epidemiologically linked...
Want to see the full article?
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Hepatitis Weekly
Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2009-05-18)
NewsRx also is available at LexisNexis, Gale, ProQuest, Factiva, Dialog, Thomson Reuters, NewsEdge, and Dow Jones.