1.
Euro Surveill
; 17(6)2012 Feb 09.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22340976
Subject(s)
Disease Outbreaks , Food Contamination/analysis , Foodborne Diseases/epidemiology , Hepatitis A virus/isolation & purification , Hepatitis A/epidemiology , Adult , Aged , Female , Foodborne Diseases/virology , Hepatitis A/diagnosis , Hepatitis A/etiology , Hepatitis A/virology , Hepatitis A virus/genetics , Humans , Solanum lycopersicum/virology , Male , Middle Aged , Molecular Sequence Data , Netherlands/epidemiology , Population Surveillance , Young Adult
2.
Euro Surveill
; 15(20)2010 May 20.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20504389
ABSTRACT
Between 31 December 2009 and 10 February 2010, 13 patients were infected by an identical hepatitis A virus strain not previously detected in the Netherlands. They had not been abroad and were widely distributed over the Netherlands. A case-control study including 12 cases and 44 controls identified semi-dried tomatoes in oil as the source of the outbreak (odds ratio: 20.0; 95% confidence interval: 1.5-274). The virus was not detected in any of 81 tested food samples. International trace-back is still ongoing.
