MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Dispatch / Vol. 52, November 21, 2003

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• Alternative Title:
  Hepatitis A Outbreak Associated with Green Onions at a Restaurant — Monaca, Pennsylvania, 2003
• Journal Article:
  MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Prevention and Disease Control
• Description:
  This report describes the investigation and analysis of an outbreak of Hepatits A associated with Green Onions in a restauarant in Monaca, Pennsylvania, 2003. The outbreak resulted in 555 persons with hepatitis A, including at least 13 Restaurant A food service workers and 75 residents of six other states who dined at Restaurant A. Three persons have died. Preliminary sequence analysis of a 340 nucleotide region of viral RNA obtained from three patrons who had hepatitis A indicated that all three virus sequences were identical. Preliminary analysis of a case-control study implicated green onions as the source of the outbreak.
• Content Notes:
  Also published as "Hepatitis A Outbreak Associated with Green Onions at a Restaurant — Monaca, Pennsylvania, 2003", MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2003; v. 52, no. 47, p.1155-1157
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Case-Control Studies Child Child, Preschool Disease Outbreaks Foodborne Diseases / Epidemiology Foodborne Diseases / Etiology Food Microbiology Hepatitis A / Epidemiology Hepatitis A / Transmission Hepatitis A Virus / Isolation & Purification Humans Middle Aged Onions / Virology Restaurants

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• Source:
  MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2003; v. 52, Dispatch
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Subseries:
  Dispatch
• Publisher:
  United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Report
• Place as Subject:
  Pennsylvania
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  52
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a94e422db22f87b6a8c8362d54d080454d9f7025874718313a20952bded1336e583d4ca0205ea9a4326cd443036340f626b4326b4721a48b2e8f8725f903efc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/250210/cdc_250210_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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