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Successful Use of Advertisement Pictures to Assist Recall in a Food-Borne Hepatitis A Outbreak in The Netherlands, 2017.
Food and environmental virology - 1 Sept 2018
Mollers Madelief, Boxman Ingeborg L A, Vennema Harry, Slegers-Fitz-James Ife A, Brandwagt Diederik, Friesema Ingrid H, Batstra Jenny S, Te Wierik Margreet J M
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This study describes an outbreak investigation of 14 hepatitis A cases in the Netherlands. The hepatitis A virus (HAV) genotype IB sequences in cases were highly similar (459/460 nt). The origin of strains could be narrowed to Bulgaria based on information from EPIS-FWD. As an association with consumption of soft fruit was suspected, a case-control study was initiated using a questionnaire and a list of pictures...
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