Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016

An increased number of hepatitis A cases among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants residing in hosting facilities in Greece were recorded between April and December 2016. In total, 177 laboratory-confirmed symptomatic cases were reported; of these, 149 (84%) occurred in hosting camps mostly among...

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Autores principales: Mellou, Kassiani, Chrisostomou, Anthi, Sideroglou, Theologia, Georgakopoulou, Theano, Kyritsi, Maria, Hadjichristodoulou, Christos, Tsiodras, Sotirios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28181904
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.4.30448
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author Mellou, Kassiani
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Georgakopoulou, Theano
Kyritsi, Maria
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Chrisostomou, Anthi
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description An increased number of hepatitis A cases among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants residing in hosting facilities in Greece were recorded between April and December 2016. In total, 177 laboratory-confirmed symptomatic cases were reported; of these, 149 (84%) occurred in hosting camps mostly among Syrian children under 15 years. All cases reported symptom onset after their entry into the country. Public health interventions focused on hygiene measures and vaccination.
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spelling pubmed-53880902017-04-24 Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016 Mellou, Kassiani Chrisostomou, Anthi Sideroglou, Theologia Georgakopoulou, Theano Kyritsi, Maria Hadjichristodoulou, Christos Tsiodras, Sotirios Euro Surveill Rapid Communication An increased number of hepatitis A cases among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants residing in hosting facilities in Greece were recorded between April and December 2016. In total, 177 laboratory-confirmed symptomatic cases were reported; of these, 149 (84%) occurred in hosting camps mostly among Syrian children under 15 years. All cases reported symptom onset after their entry into the country. Public health interventions focused on hygiene measures and vaccination. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5388090/ /pubmed/28181904 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.4.30448 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2017. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Mellou, Kassiani
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Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016
title Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016
title_full Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016
title_fullStr Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016
title_full_unstemmed Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016
title_short Hepatitis A among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016
title_sort hepatitis a among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, greece, april to december 2016
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5388090/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28181904
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.4.30448
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