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Hepatitis A Virus
New hepatitis A virus study results from E. Robesyn et al described
May 20th, 2009
"In July 2004, a sharp increase of hepatitis A, a notifiable disease in Belgium, was detected. We investigated the outbreak in order to identify the source and take appropriate action," scientists in Brussels, Belgium report. "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...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-05-20)
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