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
Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2007 Mar 15;44(6):838-40. doi: 10.1086/511874. Epub 2007 Feb 13.
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.
2005年报告的39例与食用牡蛎相关的甲型肝炎病例,是15年多来美国首次出现的与食用贝类有关的甲型肝炎大规模疫情。这是首次在疫情调查中,从受污染食品和病例患者身上获得相同的甲型肝炎病毒序列。