Outbreak of hepatitis a infection associated with the consumption of frozen berries, Ireland, 2013 - linked to an international outbreak

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 43, 2014, Pages

  Fitzgerald, M ^a,b   Thornton, L ^a   O'Gorman J ^c   O'Connor L ^d   Garvey, P ^a   Boland, M ^e   Part, A M ^e   Rogalska, J ^a,b   Coughlan, H ^e   Macdiarmada, J ^e   Heslin, J ^e   Canny, M ^e   Finnegan, P ^e   Moran, J ^a,c   O'Flanagan D ^a   Kieran, Mary ^e   Mahon, Marrita ^e   Lucey, Deirdre ^e   Maguire, Tom ^e   Murphy, Siobhan ^e   Kathleen, ^e   Clifford, ^e   Byrne, Ken ^e   Fleming, Elaine ^e   Maher, John ^e   Lynch, Aine ^e   Smith, Caroline ^e   O’Flynn, Shane ^e   Brennan, Martine ^d   Fitzpatrick, Amy ^d   Anderson, Wayne ^d   Cloak, Fiona ^a   Ngui, Siew Lin ^f   more..

^a HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

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

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA; YOGHURT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BERRY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD FREEZING; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD POISONING; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW;

EID: 84908584048     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.43.20942     Document Type: Article

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