Epidemiological shift of hepatitis A in central Adana, Turkey

PubMedID: 25910370BACKGROUND/AIMS: The aim of the study was to determine the epidemiological shift that may have occurred in the last 11 years of Hepatitis A virus (HAV) seroprevalence.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In 1998, we reported the anti-HAV seroprevalence in 711 children aged between 2 and 16 years children in Adana city center. Eleven years later we repeated the same study at the same locations in a similar population with the same method.RESULTS: From 1998 to 2009 anti-HAV seroprevalence declined from 33.9% to 22.2%, 29.5% to 25.3% (p>0,05), 52.2% to 30.8%, 69.7% to 35.2%, 66.9% to 37.7% and 71.4% to 47.3% (p