Increase in hepatitis A cases in the Czech Republic in 2008 – an update

J Cástková; C Beneš

doi:10.2807/ese.14.03.19091-en

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Increase in hepatitis A cases in the Czech Republic in 2008 – an update
J Cástková¹ , C Beneš²
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health (Státní zdravotní ústav), Prague, Czech Republic ² Department of Scientific Information and Biostatistics, National Institute of Public Health (Státní zdravotní ústav), Prague, Czech Republic

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Citation style for this article: Cástková J, Beneš C. Increase in hepatitis A cases in the Czech Republic in 2008 – an update. Euro Surveill. 2009;14(3):pii=19091. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.14.03.19091-en Received: 14 Jan 2009

Abstract

In 2008, 1,616 cases of hepatitis A were reported in the Czech Republic, more than a 10-fold increase compared with the annual number of cases registered in 2003-2007. The infection was initially associated with injecting drug users, most probably by person-to-person contact or parenteral transmission, and in the second half of the year continued to spread among the general population with increased susceptibility.