Hepatitis A outbreak in Italy, 2013: a matched case-control study.
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C Montaño-Remacha ([email protected])1,2, L Ricotta1,3, V Alfonsi1, A Bella1, M E Tosti1, A R Ciccaglione1, R Bruni1, S Taffon1, M Equestre1, M N Losio4, V Carraro5, S Franchini5, B Natter6, M Augschiller6, A Foppa6, C Gualanduzzi7, E Massimiliani7, A C Finarelli7, B M Borrini7, T Gallo8, V Cozza2,9, M Chironna10, R Prato9, C Rizzo1, Central Task Force on Hepatitis11 1. Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy 2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden 3. Dept. of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy 4. Institute Experimental Zooprophylactic of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna, Italy 5. Prevention Dept., Province of Trento, Italy 6. Prevention Dept., Province of Bolzano, Italy 7. Public Health Service Directorate General for Health and Social Policy Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy 8. Prevention Dept. ASS4 Medio Friuli, Udine, Italy 9. Dept. of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Italy 10. Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari, Italy 11. The members of the Central Task Force on Hepatitis A are listed at the end of the article
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
دوره 19 37 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014