Public Health Responses to Person-to-Person Hepatitis A Outbreaks

Kuan-Yin Lin^{1

2}, Chi-Tai Fang^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Jin-Shan Branch, New Taipei, Taiwan.
² Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.

Comment

Kuan-Yin Lin et al. J Infect Dis. 2021.

. 2021 Feb 13;223(3):359-361.

doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa638.

Kuan-Yin Lin^{1

2}, Chi-Tai Fang^{2

3}

¹ Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Jin-Shan Branch, New Taipei, Taiwan.
² Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.

No abstract available

Keywords: close contact; homelessness; hospitalization; immunization; men who have sex with men; viral hepatitis.

Comment on

Hepatitis A Person-to-Person Outbreaks: Epidemiology, Morbidity Burden, and Factors Associated With Hospitalization-Multiple States, 2016-2019.
Hofmeister MG, Xing J, Foster MA, Augustine RJ, Burkholder C, Collins J, McBee S, Thomasson ED, Thoroughman D, Weng MK, Spradling PR. Hofmeister MG, et al. J Infect Dis. 2021 Feb 13;223(3):426-434. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaa636. J Infect Dis. 2021. PMID: 33097935 Free PMC article.