Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2019

Herd Immunity Likely Protected the Men Who Have Sex With Men in the Recent Hepatitis A Outbreak in San Diego, California

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Abstract


A high seroprevalence of hepatitis A virus (81%) among human immunodeficiency virus-negative high-risk men who have sex with men is likely why this community was largely spared from a recent hepatitis A virus outbreak in San Diego, California.

Volume 68
Pages 1228–1230
DOI 10.1093/cid/ciy592
Language English
Journal Clinical Infectious Diseases

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