Hepatitis A virus infections and outbreaks in asylum seekers arriving to Germany, September 2015 to March 2016

From September 2015 to March 2016, hepatitis A notifications in Germany increased by 45% to 699 cases compared to 482 cases in the same period of the previous year. Children aged five to nine years were predominantly affected (22% of all cases in this period). We hypothesized that this increase coul...

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Main Authors: Kai Michaelis, Jürgen J Wenzel, Klaus Stark, Mirko Faber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Emerging Microbes and Infections
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1038/emi.2017.11