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.
MeSH terms
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Adolescent
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Adult
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Age Distribution
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Aged
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Animals
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Case-Control Studies
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Confidence Intervals
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Disease Outbreaks*
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Female
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Food Contamination / analysis
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Food Contamination / statistics & numerical data*
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Hepatitis A / diagnosis
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Hepatitis A / epidemiology*
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Hepatitis A / virology
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Hepatitis A virus / genetics
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Hepatitis A virus / isolation & purification*
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Humans
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Incidence
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Molecular Epidemiology
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Odds Ratio
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Ostreidae / virology*
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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RNA, Viral / analysis
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Risk Assessment
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Sex Distribution