Underreporting of hepatitis A in non-endemic countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on June 13, 2016

Authors

Rachel D Savage1, Laura C Rosella2,3,4, Kevin A Brown2, Kamran Khan5,6,7, Natasha S Crowcroft2,3,8

Author Affiliations

1: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St, 6th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3M7, Canada. rachel.savage@mail.utoronto.ca.
2: Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, 155 College St, 6th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3M7, Canada.
3: Public Health Ontario, 480 University Ave, Suite 300, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1V2, Canada.
4: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Veterans Hill Trail, 2075 Bayview Avenue G1 06, Toronto, Ontario, M4N 3M5, Canada.
5: St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond St, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8, Canada.
6: Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, 1 King's College Cir #3172, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada.
7: Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College St, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3M7, Canada.
8: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, 6th Floor, 1 King's College Cir, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada.

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