Underdiagnosis of foodborne hepatitis a, the Netherlands, 2008-2010

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 596-602

  Petrignani, Mariska ^a   Verhoef, Linda ^b   Vennema, Harry ^b   van Hunen, Rianne ^a   Baas, Dominique ^b   van Steenbergen, Jim E ^b,d   Koopmans, Marion P G ^b,c  

^a Municipal Health Service Zoetermeer   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOOD CONTROL; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENETICS; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; RNA, VIRAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896478889     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2004.130753     Document Type: Article

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