Hepatitis A Outbreak Associated with Green Onions at a Restaurant - Monaca, Pennsylvania, 2003

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 660-663

  Wang, Marcus J ^a   Moran, Gragory J ^a  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD PACKAGING; HARVESTING; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WORKER;

EID: 2342438509     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.02.019     Document Type: Review

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