Open AccessHepatitis A Outbreak Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Yokohama, Japan, January to May 2018
Author(s) -
Yukihiro Yoshimura,
Hiroshi Horiuchi,
Kenji Sawaki,
Nobuyuki Miyata,
Makoto Kumazaki,
Shuzo Usuku,
Natsuo Tachikawa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sexually transmitted diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.507
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1537-4521
pISSN - 0148-5717
DOI - 10.1097/olq.0000000000000937
Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , men who have sex with men , hepatitis a , viral hepatitis , epidemiology , virology , demography , hepatitis , environmental health , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , sociology
Between January and May in 2018, 17 male cases of hepatitis A were reported in Yokohama, Japan. Of these, 14 identified as men who have sex with men. The viral sequence in this outbreak was same as that of the recent European and Taiwanese outbreaks strain.