title: Hepatitis A transmitted to five persons by a cook.
abstract: A cook prepared and distributed meals for the nursing and cleaning staff of a hospital until he fell ill with hepatitis A. After a mean interval of 26.5 days five staff members contracted hepatitis A. All recovered within three months except a cleaning woman in whom the hepatitis A recurred 4 months later. In view of the decreasing prevalence of protective antibodies against hepatitis A in adults of central and northern Europe, an increasing incidence of small or even large epidemics of hepatitis A can be expected.
authors.affiliation: Stadtkrankenhaus Neuwied, FRG.
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Feurle
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mundinger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005521:Food Service, Hospital; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors