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. 2007 Mar 15;44(6):838-40.
doi: 10.1086/511874. Epub 2007 Feb 13.

Use of molecular epidemiology to confirm a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A caused by consumption of oysters

Stephanie R Bialek  1 , Prethiba A George, Guo-Liang Xia, Marc B Glatzer, Miles L Motes, John E Veazey, Roberta M Hammond, Timothy Jones, Y Carol Shieh, Janet Wamnes, Gilberto Vaughan, Yury Khudyakov, Anthony E Fiore
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Use of molecular epidemiology to confirm a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A caused by consumption of oysters

Stephanie R Bialek et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

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.

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