Krumbholz, Andi and Marcic, Anne and Valentin, Malte and Schemmerer, Mathias and Wenzel, Juergen J. (2023) Hepatitis A outbreak in a refugee shelter in Kiel, northern Germany. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY, 95 (11): e29185. ISSN 0146-6615, 1096-9071
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In the spring of 2023, three Ukrainian war refugees from a municipal community shelter and a volunteer caregiver at an affiliated daycare center in Kiel, Germany, were diagnosed with infectious jaundice attributable to a single hepatitis A virus (HAV) subgenotype IA strain. Similar HAV sequences have been observed in Germany and other European countries for several years. One refugee and the volunteer required hospitalization. Four children were asymptomatically infected but excreted high levels of HAV ribonucleic acid in the stool. The infections were probably acquired in Germany, but a source could not be determined. The outbreak was contained through vaccination, increased hygiene, and education. The existing HAV vaccination recommendation for refugee shelter staff and volunteers should be consistently implemented.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME VIRUS; TO-PERSON TRANSMISSION; MESSENGER-RNA VACCINES; SEVERE FEVER; RATIONAL DESIGN; VACCINATION; CHINA; BUNYAVIRUS; CLUSTER; acute viral hepatitis; HAV subgenotype IA; refugees; vaccination recommendation |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Apr 2024 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Apr 2024 12:41 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/62494 |
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