Ongoing multi-strain food-borne hepatitis A outbreak with frozen berries as suspected vehicle: Four Nordic countries affected, October 2012 to April 2013

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 8-13

  Gillesberg Lassen, S ^a   Soborg, B ^a,b   Midgley, S E ^a   Steens, A ^b,c   Vold, L ^c   Stene Johansen, K ^c   Rimhanen Finne, R ^d   Kontio, M ^d   Lofdahl M ^e   Sundqvist, L ^e   Edelstein, M ^b,e   Jensen, T ^f   Vestergaard, H T ^a   Fischer, T K ^a   Molbak K ^a   Ethelberg, S ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

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

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^f DANISH VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP1; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BERRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD FREEZING; FOOD POISONING; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAVEL; VIRUS TYPING;

EID: 84876874077     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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