Emerging infectious diseases, 2010-01, Vol.16 (1), p.126-129
2010
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Hepatitis E epidemic, Uganda
- Ist Teil von
- Emerging infectious diseases, 2010-01, Vol.16 (1), p.126-129
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In October 2007, an epidemic of hepatitis E was suspected in Kitgum District of northern Uganda where no previous epidemics had been documented. This outbreak has progressed to become one of the largest hepatitis E outbreaks in the world. By June 2009, the epidemic had caused illness in >10,196 persons and 160 deaths.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1080-6040eISSN: 1080-6059DOI: 10.3201/eid1601.090764Titel-ID: cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_ca09267924b54b65a4de93d40b7b859c
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child, Preschool, Development and progression, Disease Outbreaks, Disease transmission, Dispatch, epidemic, Epidemics, Female, Health aspects, Hepatitis E, Hepatitis E - epidemiology, Hepatitis E - virology, Hepatitis E virus - genetics, hepatitis virus, Humans, Infant, Male, Middle Aged, Mortality, Pregnancy, Pregnant women, Uganda, Uganda - epidemiology, Viruses, Young Adult