Hepatitis A virus infections and outbreaks in asylum seekers arriving to Germany, September 2015 to March 2016

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-375002
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.37500

Michaelis, Kai ; Wenzel, Jürgen J.

; Stark, Klaus ; Faber, Mirko

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Abstract

From September 2015 to March 2016, hepatitis A notifications in Germany increased by 45% to 699 cases compared to 482 cases in the same period of the previous year. Children aged five to nine years were predominantly affected (22% of all cases in this period). We hypothesized that this increase could be explained by the marked influx of asylum seekers in this time period. We analysed national ...