Large and prolonged food-borne multistate hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014

E Severi; L Verhoef; L Thornton; B R Guzman-Herrador; M Faber; L Sundqvist; R Rimhanen-Finne; A M Roque-Afonso; S L Ngui; F Allerberger; A Baumann-Popczyk; L Muller; K Parmakova; V Alfonsi; L Tavoschi; H Vennema; M Fitzgerald; M Myrmel; M Gertler; J Ederth; M Kontio; C Vanbockstael; S Mandal; M Sadkowska-Todys; M E Tosti; B Schimmer; J O’Gorman; Kathrine Stene-Johansen; J J Wenzel; G Jones; K Balogun; A R Ciccaglione; L O’Connor; L Vold; J Takkinen; C Rizzo

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Large and prolonged food-borne multistate hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014
E Severi^1,2 , L Verhoef³ , L Thornton⁴ , B R Guzman-Herrador⁵ , M Faber⁶ , L Sundqvist⁷ , R Rimhanen-Finne⁸ , A M Roque-Afonso⁹ , S L Ngui¹⁰ , F Allerberger¹¹ , A Baumann-Popczyk¹² , L Muller¹³ , K Parmakova¹⁴ , V Alfonsi¹⁵ , L Tavoschi¹ , H Vennema³ , M Fitzgerald⁴ , M Myrmel¹⁶ , M Gertler⁶ , J Ederth⁷ , M Kontio⁸ , C Vanbockstael¹⁷ , S Mandal¹⁰ , M Sadkowska-Todys¹² , M E Tosti¹⁵ , B Schimmer³ , J O’Gorman¹⁸ , Kathrine Stene-Johansen⁵ , J J Wenzel¹⁹ , G Jones¹⁷ , K Balogun¹⁰ , A R Ciccaglione¹⁵ , L O’Connor²⁰ , L Vold⁵ , J Takkinen¹ , C Rizzo¹⁵
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Affiliations: ¹ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ² Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden ³ National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands ⁴ Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland ⁵ Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway ⁶ Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ⁷ Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden ⁸ Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland ⁹ National Reference Centre for Hepatitis A, Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France ¹⁰ Public Health England, London, United Kingdom ¹¹ Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Vienna, Austria ¹² National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene, Warsaw, Poland ¹³ Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark ¹⁴ National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria ¹⁵ Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy ¹⁶ Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oslo, Norway ¹⁷ Institut de Veille Sanitaire (InVS) region Picardy, Amiens, France ¹⁸ National Virus Reference Laboratory, Dublin, Ireland ¹⁹ Regensburg University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany ²⁰ Food Safety Authority of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

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Citation style for this article: Severi E, Verhoef L, Thornton L, Guzman-Herrador B R, Faber M, Sundqvist L, Rimhanen-Finne R, Roque-Afonso A M, Ngui S L, Allerberger F, Baumann-Popczyk A, Muller L, Parmakova K, Alfonsi V, Tavoschi L, Vennema H, Fitzgerald M, Myrmel M, Gertler M, Ederth J, Kontio M, Vanbockstael C, Mandal S, Sadkowska-Todys M, Tosti M E, Schimmer B, O’Gorman J, Stene-Johansen Kathrine, Wenzel J J, Jones G, Balogun K, Ciccaglione A R, O’Connor L, Vold L, Takkinen J, Rizzo C. Large and prolonged food-borne multistate hepatitis A outbreak in Europe associated with consumption of frozen berries, 2013 to 2014. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(29):pii=21192. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.29.21192 Received: 17 Apr 2015

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