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

作者：Bialek Stephanie R^*; George Prethiba A; Xia Guo Liang; Glatzer Marc B; Motes Miles L; Veazey John E; Hammond Roberta M; Jones Timothy; Shieh Y Carol; Wamnes Janet; Vaughan Gilberto; Khudyakov Yury; Fiore Anthony E

来源：Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2007, 44(6): 838-840.

DOI：10.1086/511874

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.

• 出版日期2007-3-15