Outbreak of hepatitis A in the USA associated with frozen pomegranate arils imported from Turkey: An epidemiological case study

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 976-981

  Collier, Melissa G ^a   Khudyakov, Yury E ^a   Selvage, David ^d   Adams Cameron, Meg ^d   Epson, Erin ^b,e   Cronquist, Alicia ^e   Jervis, Rachel H ^e   Lamba, Katherine ^f   Kimura, Akiko C ^f   Sowadsky, Rick ^g   Hassan, Rashida ^h   Park, Sarah Y ⁱ   Garza, Eric ^j   Elliott, Aleisha J ^k,l   Rotstein, David S ^k   Beal, Jennifer ^k   Kuntz, Thomas ^k   Lance, Susan E ^c,k   Dreisch, Rebecca ^k   Wise, Matthew E ^c   Nelson, Noele P ^a   Suryaprasad, Anil ^a   Drobeniuc, Jan ^a   Holmberg, Scott D ^a   Xu, Fujie ^a   more..

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e Air Pollution Control Division   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health   (United States)

^h ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

ⁱ HAWAII STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^j TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^k CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^l OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; VIRUS VACCINE;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUEBERRY; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CONSUMER; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD PACKAGING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POMEGRANATE; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PRODUCT RECALL; RASPBERRY; SERUM; SHELF LIFE; SHOPPING; STRAWBERRY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYTHRACEAE; MIDDLE AGED; TURKEY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PRODUCT RECALLS AND WITHDRAWALS; PUNICACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TURKEY; UNITED STATES; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84908125815     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(14)70883-7     Document Type: Article

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