Hepatitis B outbreak following a mass-casualty incident, Australia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 400-407

  Italiano, Claire M ^a   Speers, David J ^b   Chidlow, Glenys R ^c   Dowse, Gary K ^d   Robertson, Andrew G ^e   Flexman, James P ^a,f  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Department of Microbiology ^*  (United States)

^c PathWest Laboratory Medicine Western Australia   (United States)

^d Department of Health   (United States)

^e Disaster Management Regulation and Planning Directorate   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BURN; BURN INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; MASS DISASTER; MOLECULAR TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79960135232     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jir269     Document Type: Article

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