Increase in hepatitis A cases in the Czech Republic in 2008 - an update
Language English Country Sweden Media electronic
Document type Journal Article
PubMed
19161729
PII: 19091
Knihovny.cz E-resources
- MeSH
- Child MeSH
- Adult MeSH
- Disease Outbreaks statistics & numerical data MeSH
- Hepatitis A epidemiology MeSH
- Risk Assessment methods MeSH
- Incidence MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Adolescent MeSH
- Young Adult MeSH
- Risk Factors MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Population Surveillance * MeSH
- Check Tag
- Child MeSH
- Adult MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Adolescent MeSH
- Young Adult MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic epidemiology MeSH
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.
Clinical and laboratory features of viral hepatitis A in children
