Use of Molecular Epidemiology to Confirm a Multistate Outbreak of Hepatitis a Caused by Consumption of Oysters

The 39 oyster consumption-related cases of hepatitis A reported in 2005 represent the first large outbreak of hepatitis A associated with shellfish consumption in the United States in >15 years. This is the first outbreak investigation in which an identical hepatitis A virus sequence was obtained...

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Published in:Clinical infectious diseases 2007-03, Vol.44 (6), p.838-840
Main Authors: Bialek, Stephanie R., George, Prethiba A., Xia, Guo-Liang, Glatzer, Marc B., Motes, Miles L., Veazey, John E., Hammond, Roberta M., Jones, Timothy, Shieh, Y. Carol, Wamnes, Janet, Vaughan, Gilberto, Khudyakov, Yury, Fiore, Anthony E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Age Distribution
Aged
Animals
Biological and medical sciences
Brief Reports
Case-Control Studies
Confidence Intervals
Disease Outbreaks
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Female
Food contamination & poisoning
Food Contamination - analysis
Food Contamination - statistics & numerical data
Health care administration
Hepatitis
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A - diagnosis
Hepatitis A - epidemiology
Hepatitis A - virology
Hepatitis A virus
Hepatitis A virus - genetics
Hepatitis A virus - isolation & purification
Human viral diseases
Humans
Incidence
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical sciences
Medication administration
Middle Aged
Molecular Epidemiology
Odds Ratio
Ostreidae - virology
Oysters
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Public health
Risk Assessment
RNA, Viral - analysis
Sewage
Sex Distribution
Shellfish
Viral diseases
Viral hepatitis
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Summary:The 39 oyster consumption-related cases of hepatitis A reported in 2005 represent the first large outbreak of hepatitis A associated with shellfish consumption in the United States in >15 years. This is the first outbreak investigation in which an identical hepatitis A virus sequence was obtained from both the implicated food product and case patients.
ISSN:1058-4838
1537-6591
DOI:10.1086/511874