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Use of molecular epidemiology to confirm a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A caused by consumption of oysters.

Bialek SR, George PA, Xia GL, Glatzer MB, Motes ML, Veazey JE, Hammond RM, Jones T, Shieh YC, Wamnes J, Vaughan G, Khudyakov Y, Fiore AE

Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. sbialek@cdc.gov

The 39 oyster consumption-related cases of hepatitis A reported in 2005 represent the first large outbreak of hepatitis A associated with shellfish consumption in the United States in >15 years. This is the first outbreak investigation in which an identical hepatitis A virus sequence was obtained from both the implicated food product and case patients.

Published 16 February 2007 in Clin Infect Dis, 44(6): 838-40.
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