| Literature DB >> 17304457 |
Stephanie R Bialek1, Prethiba A George, Guo-Liang Xia, Marc B Glatzer, Miles L Motes, John E Veazey, Roberta M Hammond, Timothy Jones, Y Carol Shieh, Janet Wamnes, Gilberto Vaughan, Yury Khudyakov, Anthony E Fiore.
Abstract
The 39 oyster consumption-related cases of hepatitis A reported in 2005 represent the first large outbreak of hepatitis A associated with shellfish consumption in the United States in >15 years. This is the first outbreak investigation in which an identical hepatitis A virus sequence was obtained from both the implicated food product and case patients.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17304457 DOI: 10.1086/511874
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Infect Dis ISSN: 1058-4838 Impact factor: 9.079