A person to person hepatitis A outbreak.

Abstract:

:A person to person outbreak of hepatitis A is described: 90 cases of hepatitis A occurred in a small town in Calabria, southern Italy; all cases were under 18 years of age with the highest age-specific incidence rate in the 6-10 year age group. Transmission was identified by tracing close contacts with other incubating or active cases; only eight out of 90 cases were not identified as having a very probable or possible contact with an infecting case. Transmission was high between family members leading to a secondary family attack rate of 51% in children under 16. An enteric disease educational campaign was carried out together with IgG and no cases of hepatitis A were reported in the two years following the investigation.

journal_name

Int J Epidemiol

authors

Greco D,De Giacomi G,Piersante GP,Bibby L,Nicastro M,Cavalcanti P

doi

10.1093/ije/15.1.108

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1986-03-01 00:00:00

pages

108-11

issue

1

eissn

0300-5771

issn

1464-3685

journal_volume

15

pub_type

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