Hepatitis A outbreak predominantly affecting men who have sex with men in Northern Ireland, october 2008 to july 2009

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Sfetcu, O ^a,b   Irvine, N ^a   Ngui, S L ^c   Emerson, C ^d   Mccaughey, C ^d   Donaghy, P ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A VACCINE; PROTEIN VP1; PROTEIN VP2; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRELAND; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA EXTRACTION; SAFE SEX; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 79952528760     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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