Using data linkage to improve surveillance methods for acute hepatitis E infections in England and Wales 2010-2016

Epidemiol Infect. 2017 Oct;145(14):2886-2889. doi: 10.1017/S0950268817002047. Epub 2017 Sep 26.

Abstract

Indigenous, foodborne transmission of hepatitis E has been increasing across industrialised countries. Public Health England has conducted enhanced surveillance in England and Wales since 2003.This report gives an account of acute infections from 2010 to 2016 and describes modification made to the methods of surveillance to account for changes in reporting behaviours and improve ascertainment.

Keywords: Emerging infections; food-borne zoonoses; infectious disease epidemiology; virus infection.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Disease Notification
  • England / epidemiology
  • Hepatitis E / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Information Storage and Retrieval*
  • Population Surveillance / methods*
  • Wales / epidemiology