title: Use of molecular epidemiology to confirm a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A caused by consumption of oysters.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. sbialek@cdc.gov
authors.forename: Stephanie R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Bialek
authors.forename: Prethiba A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: Guo-Liang
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Marc B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Glatzer
authors.forename: Miles L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Motes
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Veazey
authors.forename: Roberta M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Hammond
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Y Carol
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Shieh
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wamnes
authors.forename: Gilberto
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vaughan
authors.forename: Yury
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Khudyakov
authors.forename: Anthony E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Fiore
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D030041:Hepatitis A virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D016017:Odds Ratio; D010125:Ostreidae / Q000821:virology*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017678:Sex Distribution
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral