Underdiagnosis of Foodborne Hepatitis A, the Netherlands, 2008–20101

Outbreaks of foodborne hepatitis A are rarely recognized as such. Detection of these infections is challenging because of the infection’s long incubation period and patients’ recall bias. Nevertheless, the complex food market might lead to reemergence of hepatitis A virus outside of disease-endemic...

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Main Authors: Petrignani, Mariska, Verhoef, Linda, Vennema, Harry, van Hunen, Rianne, Baas, Dominique, van Steenbergen, Jim E., Koopmans, Marion P.G.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3966399/