A multistate outbreak of hepatitis a associated with semidried tomatoes in Australia, 2009

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 775-781

  Donnan, Ellen J ^a,b   Fielding, James E ^a,c   Gregory, Joy E ^a,d   Lalor, Karin ^a,d   Rowe, Stacey ^a   Goldsmith, Paul ^a   Antoniou, Mira ^a   Fullerton, Kathleen E ^d   Knope, Katrina ^d   Copland, Joy G ^e   Bowden, D Scott ^c   Tracy, Samantha L ^c   Hogg, Geoffrey G ^f   Tan, Agnes ^f   Adamopoulos, Jim ^a   Gaston, Joanna ^a   Vally, Hassan ^b,g  

^a Department of Health ^*  (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^d OzFoodNet   (Australia)

^e South Australian Department of Health   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SANITATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TOMATO; VIRUS DETECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD, PRESERVED; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS, HUMAN; HUMANS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRODUCT RECALLS AND WITHDRAWALS; RNA, VIRAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857535757     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir949     Document Type: Article

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