Major Outbreak of Hepatitis A Associated with Orange Juice among Tourists, Egypt, 2004
Emerging Infectious Diseases·
- DOI
- 10.3201/eid1301.060487
- PMID
- 17370535
- PMCID
- PMC2725821
- OpenAlex
- W2133922585
- Study type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Article type
- journal-article
- Integrity
- current
Why this research matters now
The abstract frames the outbreak as travel-associated hepatitis A and states that hepatitis A vaccination is recommended before travel to endemic areas. This is relevant to travel medicine and outbreak prevention messaging.
Structured evidence summary
Research question
The article appears to address the source and characteristics of a hepatitis A outbreak among European tourists after travel to Egypt in 2004.
Study design
The abstract identifies a case-control study conducted as part of an outbreak investigation.
Population and setting
The reported outbreak involved 351 tourists from nine European countries who had returned from Egypt. The setting is travel-associated exposure linked to Egypt in 2004.
Main findings
The abstract reports that cases were infected with one hepatitis A strain, described as genotype 1 b. Orange juice was identified in the case-control study as the most probable vehicle of infection.
Public-health relevance
The abstract frames the outbreak as travel-associated hepatitis A and states that hepatitis A vaccination is recommended before travel to endemic areas. This is relevant to travel medicine and outbreak prevention messaging.
Important limitations
The abstract provides limited methodological detail beyond noting a case-control study, so assessment of exposure measurement, control selection, and analytic strength requires the full article. This summary is limited to the supplied single-article abstract and metadata and is not sufficient for decision-grade interpretation.
GIDS interpretation
The title, abstract, and classifier metadata make this article discoverable in relation to hepatitis A, Egypt, travel-associated illness, and outbreak investigation. The classifier list also contains other disease labels, but the supplied title and abstract specifically support hepatitis A as the relevant condition.
Related GIDS surveillance
Literature context does not validate, explain, or change a surveillance signal. Exact and contextual relationships are shown separately.
Evidence relationships
This article has 9 auditable classifier relationships to diseases, places, topics, and study design.