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Hepatitis A outbreak among men who have sex with men (MSM) predominantly linked with the EuroPride, the Netherlands, July 2016 to February 2017.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 23 Feb 2017
Freidl Gudrun S, Sonder Gerard Jb, Bovée Lian Pmj, Friesema Ingrid Hm, van Rijckevorsel Gini Gc, Ruijs Wilhelmina Lm, van Schie Frank, Siedenburg Evelien C, Yang Jyh-Yuan, Vennema Harry
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Between July 2016 and February 2017, 48 male cases of hepatitis A were notified in the Netherlands. Of these, 17 identified as men who have sex with men (MSM). Ten of the 13 cases for whom sequencing information was available, were infected with a strain linked with the EuroPride that took place in Amsterdam in 2016. This strain is identical to a strain that has been causing a large outbreak among MSM in Taiwan.
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