التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
DISPATCHES Hepatitis E Epidemic, Uganda |
| المؤلفون: |
Eyasu H. Teshale, Christopher M. Howard, Scott P. Grytdal, Thomas R. H, Vaughn Barry, Saleem Kamili, Jan Drobeniuc, Samuel Okware, Robert Downing, Barnabas Bakamutumaho, Chong-gee Teo, John W. Ward, Scott D. Holmberg, Dale J. Hu |
| المساهمون: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: |
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/1/pdfs/09-0764.pdfTest. |
| المجموعة: |
CiteSeerX |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
for a census and seroprevalence survey. In June 2008 |
| الوصف: |
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. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection causes large epidemics of liver disease in developing countries (1–3). In epidemic settings, HEV is transmitted by the fecal–oral route, and the most commonly attributed source of infection is feces-contaminated drinking water (4). The incubation period after exposure ranges from 3 to 8 weeks (mean 40 days) and is dose dependent (5,6). Illness is generally self-limited, with death rates <4 % in the general population (7), but a strikingly high death rate (10%–25%) has been reported among pregnant women (8). In October 2007, an epidemic of hepatitis E was suspected in northern Uganda, where no previous epidemics had been documented. However, outbreaks of hepatitis E had occurred in neighboring Sudan and Chad in 2004 (9,10). Beginning in the Madi Opei subcounty of Kitgum District, this outbreak has progressed to become one of the largest hepatitis E outbreaks in Africa and globally. By June 2009, a year after the study we report here, the epidemic involved all 19 subcounties of Kitgum and had caused illness in>10,196 persons and 160 deaths (local surveillance, unpub. data). This report describes the results of a case finding and seroprevalence survey in 2 subcounties of Kitgum |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
text |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf |
| اللغة: |
English |
| العلاقة: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.306.7493Test; http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/1/pdfs/09-0764.pdfTest |
| الإتاحة: |
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/1/pdfs/09-0764.pdfTest |
| حقوق: |
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| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.2587768E |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
