Foodborne hepatitis A outbreak associated with bakery products in northern Germany, 2012

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 19, Issue 50, 2014, Pages

  Harries, M ^a,b,c   Monazahian, M ^a   Wenzel, J ^d   Jilg, W ^d   Weber, M ^e   Ehlers, J ^f   Dreesman, J ^a   Mertens, E ^a  

^a Governmental Institute of Public Health of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e Lower Saxony Federal State Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (LAVES)   (Germany)

^f Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAKERY PRODUCT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922032686     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.50.20992     Document Type: Article

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