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A waterborne outbreak involving hepatitis A virus genotype IA at a residential facility in the Republic of Korea in 2015.
Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology - 1 Sept 2017
Shin Eunkyung, Kim Jin Seok, Oh Kyung-Hwan, Oh Sung Suck, Kwon MunJu, Kim Soojin, Park Jungsun, Kwak Hyo-Sun, Chung Gyung Tae, Kim Chul-Joong, Kim Junyoung
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis A virus (HAV), a major cause of acute hepatitis, has had the highest occurrence among group 1 nationally notifiable infectious diseases in Korea since 2010.Recently,the annual increase in the HAV infection rate among young adults has become a public health concern. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to describe an outbreak of acute hepatitis in a residential facility in April 2015 and to...
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