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

2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 44; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/511874

1537-6591

S. R. Bialek, Prethibha George, Guoliang Xia, M. B. Glatzer, Miles L. Motes, J. E. Veazey, Roberta M. Hammond, Timothy W. Jones, Y. Carol Shieh, J. Wamnes, Gilberto Vaughan, Yury Khudyakov, Anthony E. Fiore,

Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology

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.