Risk factors for hospitalisation and associated costs among patients with hepatitis A associated with imported pomegranate arils, United States, 2013

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
7526250	Public Health	2016	8 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Hospitalisations in this outbreak were associated with chronic medical conditions and resulted in substantial healthcare usage and lost productivity. These data can be used to inform future evaluation of expansion of hepatitis A vaccination recommendations to include adults with chronic medical conditions.

Keywords

CDC PEP DOL HAV immune globulin emergency department Disease outbreaks Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Hepatitis A HCV Hepatitis C virus hepatitis A virus postexposure prophylaxis

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Health Sciences Medicine and Dentistry Infectious Diseases

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Risk factors for hospitalisation and associated costs among patients with hepatitis A associated with imported pomegranate arils, United States, 2013

Authors

E.E. Epson, A. Cronquist, K. Lamba, A.C. Kimura, R. Hassan, D. Selvage, C.S. McNeil, A.K. Varan, J.L. Silvaggio, L. Fan, X. Tong, P.R. Spradling,