Hepatitis a outbreak in British Columbia, Canada: The roles of established surveillance, consumer loyalty cards and collaboration, February to May 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Swinkels, H M ^a,b   Kuo, M ^c   Embree, G ^a   Stone, Jason ^e   Trerise, Steven ^e   Brisdon, Shendra ^e   Louie, Ken ^e   Asplin, Rod ^e   Stiller, Andrea ^e   Abraham, Tara ^e   Gill, Inderjeet Singh ^e   Rice, George ^e   Andonov, A ^d   Henry, B ^b,c   Buxton, J A ^b,c  

^a FRASER HEALTH AUTHORITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^d Public Health Agency of Canada   (Canada)

^e Public Health Agency of Canada ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POMEGRANATE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RNA ISOLATION; SAMPLING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FROZEN FOODS; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84900454074     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.18.20792     Document Type: Article

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