Successful Use of Advertisement Pictures to Assist Recall in a Food-Borne Hepatitis A Outbreak in The Netherlands, 2017
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 of soft fruit available at the supermarket chain involved. Twelve out of 13 cases consumed a specific frozen raspberry/blueberry product shown on the list (OR 46.0, 95% CI 5.0–27). In... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | article/Letter to editor |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Schlagwörter: | HAV / Outbreak / Raspberries / Soft fruit / Virus |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26838648 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/successful-use-of-advertisement-pictures-to-assist-recall-in-a-fo |