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Hepatitis A Outbreak in a Residential School
Author(s) -
Boughton C. R.,
Hawkes R. A.,
Lehmann N. I.,
Grohmann G. S.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1980.tb03409.x
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , hepatitis a , serology , hepatitis , mentally retarded , pediatrics , residential school , virology , immunology , socioeconomics , antibody , psychology , developmental psychology , sociology
Summary: Hepatitis A outbreak in a residential school. C. R. Boughton, R. A. Hawkes, N. I. Lehmann and G. S. Grohmann, Aust. N.Z. J. Med ., 1980, 10 , pp. 4–6. Outbreaks of hepatitis A occurred sequentially in two wards for children in a residential institution for the mentally retarded in Sydney. Twenty‐six of 47 children were initially susceptible to hepatitis A. In the first ward affected, 77 of 13 susceptible children (85%), and in the second ward, four of 13 susceptible (31%), were infected. Of the 15 showing serological evidence of infection, five (33%) were clinically jaundiced.