Open AccessInvestigating a community wide outbreak of hepatitis A in Kerala, India
Author(s) -
PS Rakesh,
T. T Carmel Regeela Mainu,
Arun Raj,
D S Babu,
Midhun Rajiv,
Kavya Mohandas,
Amrita Das,
Arjun Balasubramanian
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_127_18
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , hepatitis a , epidemiology , attack rate , environmental health , logistic regression , demography , jaundice , hepatitis , surgery , virology , pathology , sociology
There was an outbreak of acute hepatitis in Nellikuzhy panchayat of Kothamangalam taluk, Ernakulam district, Kerala, during November and early December 2016. Objective of this study is to describe the epidemiological features of the outbreak and to identify the probable source.