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Hepatitis A outbreak originating in a day care center: a community case report
S Sadetzki1, N Rostmi, B Modan
1Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. epid15@post.tau.ac.il
European Journal of Epidemiology
|September 15, 1999
Abstract:
A community outbreak of hepatitis A is described, involving 23 persons in a small town in central Israel. Seventy-four percent of the cases were related to a contact with toddlers in one nursery class in a day care center. There were no overt cases in that class itself. The mode of transmission exemplified in this community underlines the difficulties in identifying a common source of hepatitis A infection, which is necessary for the elimination of a further spread of the disease.