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Title: | Hepatitis A virus in urban sewage from two Mediterranean countries. |
Author: | Pintó Solé, Rosa María Alegre, D. Domínguez García, Àngela Morsy El-Senousy, W. Sánchez, G. Villena, C. Costafreda Salvany, M. Isabel (Maria Isabel) Aragonès, L. Bosch, Albert |
Keywords: | Hepatitis A Virus de l'hepatitis A Hepatitis A Hepatitis A virus |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Abstract: | Molecular methods for the detection and typing of hepatitis A virus (HAV) strains in sewage were applied to determine its distribution in Cairo and Barcelona. The study revealed the occurrence of different patterns of hepatitis A endemicity in each city. The circulating strains characterized, whether in Cairo or Barcelona, were genotype IB. The effects of a child vaccination programme and the increase in the immigrant population on the overall hepatitis A occurrence in Barcelona were evaluated. While vaccination contributed to a significant decrease in the number of clinical cases, the huge recent immigration flow has probably been responsible for the re-emergence of the disease in the last year of study, in the form of small outbreaks among the non-vaccinated population. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268806006753 |
It is part of: | Epidemiology and Infection, 2007, vol. 135, num. 2, p. 270-273 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/193905 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268806006753 |
ISSN: | 0950-2688 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística) |
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