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15 March 2007

Volume 44, Number 6
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2007;44:838–840
This article is in the public domain, and no copyright is claimed.
1058-4838/2007/4406-0013
DOI: 10.1086/511874
BRIEF REPORT

Use of Molecular Epidemiology to Confirm a Multistate Outbreak of Hepatitis A Caused by Consumption of Oysters

Stephanie R. Bialek,1

Prethiba A. George,1

Guo‐Liang Xia,1

Marc B. Glatzer,2

Miles L. Motes,5

John E. Veazey,7

Roberta M. Hammond,3

Timothy Jones,8

Y. Carol Shieh,6

Janet Wamnes,4

Gilberto Vaughan,1

Yury Khudyakov,1 and

Anthony E. Fiore,1

1Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia; 2US Food and Drug Administration and 3Florida Department of Health/Bureau of Community Environmental Health, Tallahassee, and 4Florida Department of Health, Fort Pierce, Florida; 5US Food and Drug Administration, Mobile, and 6Food and Drug Administration Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, Dauphin Island, Alabama; 7US Food and Drug Administration, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and 8Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville

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.

Received 10 October 2006; accepted 5 December 2006; electronically published 13 February 2007.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Stephanie R. Bialek, Div. of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop G‐37, 1600 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA 30333 ().

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Online publication date: 1-May-2008.
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