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A family cluster of hepatitis A virus due to an uncommon IA strain circulating in Campania (southern Italy), not associated with raw shellfish or berries: a wake-up call to implement vaccination against hepatitis A?
Le infezioni in medicina - 1 Sept 2016
Tosone Grazia, Mascolo Silvia, Bruni Roberto, Taffon Stefania, Equestre Michele, Tosti Maria Elena, Ciccaglione Anna Rita, Martucci Fiorella, Liberti Alfonso, Iannece Maria Donata, Orlando Raffaele
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis A virus is a widely occurring disease, with different prevalence rates between countries in the North and West and those in the South and East. In Italy endemicity is low/medium, but not homogeneously distributed: in the northern/central regions a large hepatitis A outbreak due to genotype IA, related to the consumption of contaminated mixed frozen berries, occurred between 2013 and 2014, whereas in...
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