Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017

A hepatitis A outbreak has occurred in Chile since November 2016. Men are predominantly affected, with a large proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM). We describe 12 consecutive unrelated confirmed cases who presented at our healthcare institution in Santiago Metropolitan Area. Nine were men,...

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Autores principales: Rivas, Violeta, Barrera, Aldo, Pino, Karla, Núñez, Ruth, Caceres, C. Joaquin, Lopez-Lastra, Marcelo, Soza, Alejandro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29510780
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.9.18-00060
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author Rivas, Violeta
Barrera, Aldo
Pino, Karla
Núñez, Ruth
Caceres, C. Joaquin
Lopez-Lastra, Marcelo
Soza, Alejandro
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description A hepatitis A outbreak has occurred in Chile since November 2016. Men are predominantly affected, with a large proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM). We describe 12 consecutive unrelated confirmed cases who presented at our healthcare institution in Santiago Metropolitan Area. Nine were men, all reporting having had sex with men. Ten viral sequences, genotyped as IA, clustered with the V16–25801 strain causing outbreaks mostly in MSM in Europe since mid-2016.
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spelling pubmed-58409222018-03-23 Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017 Rivas, Violeta Barrera, Aldo Pino, Karla Núñez, Ruth Caceres, C. Joaquin Lopez-Lastra, Marcelo Soza, Alejandro Euro Surveill Rapid Communication A hepatitis A outbreak has occurred in Chile since November 2016. Men are predominantly affected, with a large proportion of men who have sex with men (MSM). We describe 12 consecutive unrelated confirmed cases who presented at our healthcare institution in Santiago Metropolitan Area. Nine were men, all reporting having had sex with men. Ten viral sequences, genotyped as IA, clustered with the V16–25801 strain causing outbreaks mostly in MSM in Europe since mid-2016. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2018-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5840922/ /pubmed/29510780 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.9.18-00060 Text en This article is copyright of The Authors, 2018. 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.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Rivas, Violeta
Barrera, Aldo
Pino, Karla
Núñez, Ruth
Caceres, C. Joaquin
Lopez-Lastra, Marcelo
Soza, Alejandro
Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017
title Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017
title_full Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017
title_fullStr Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017
title_full_unstemmed Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017
title_short Hepatitis A outbreak since November 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in Chile connected to the current outbreak in MSM in Europe, situation up to October 2017
title_sort hepatitis a outbreak since november 2016 affecting men who have sex with men (msm) in chile connected to the current outbreak in msm in europe, situation up to october 2017
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29510780
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.9.18-00060
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