title: Increase in hepatitis A cases in the Czech Republic in 2008 - an update.
abstract: In 2008, 1,616 cases of hepatitis A were reported in the Czech Republic, more than a 10-fold increase compared with the annual number of cases registered in 2003-2007. The infection was initially associated with injecting drug users, most probably by person-to-person contact or parenteral transmission, and in the second half of the year continued to spread among the general population with increased susceptibility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health (Statni zdravotni ustav), Prague, Czech Republic. jcastkova@szu.cz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cástková
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Benes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D018153:Czech Republic / Q000453:epidemiology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006506:Hepatitis A / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult