Multistate foodborne hepatitis A outbreak among European tourists returning from Egypt--need for reinforced vaccination recommendations, November 2012 to April 2013.
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چکیده
J Sane ([email protected])1,2, E MacDonald2,3, L Vold3, C Gossner4,5, E Severi4, on behalf of the International Outbreak Investigation Team6 1. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Centre for Infectious Disease Control, Bilthoven, the Netherlands 2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 4. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 5. School of Public Health and Primary Care (CAPHRI), Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands 6. Members of the team are listed at the end of the article
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Increase in hepatitis A in tourists from Denmark, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden returning from Egypt, November 2012 to March 2013.
Since November 2012, there has been an increase in reported cases of hepatitis A in tourists returning from Egypt in several European countries. As of 24 April, 80 HAV cases in travellers with symptom onset after 1 November 2012 visiting different areas in Egypt have been reported. Four cases from Norway, six cases from the Netherlands and five cases from England share an identical hepatitis A ...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
دوره 20 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015