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Volume 23, Number 2—February 2017
Dispatch

Changing Epidemiology of Hepatitis A and Hepatitis E Viruses in China, 1990–2014

Xiang Ren1, Peng Wu1, Liping Wang1, Mengjie Geng, Lingjia Zeng, Jun Zhang, Ningshao Xia, Shengjie Lai, Harry R. Dalton, Benjamin J. Cowling2, and Sheng Wei2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-Warning on Infectious Disease, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China (X. Ren, L. Wang, M. Geng, L. Zeng, S. Lai, H. Yu); World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (X. Ren, P. Wu, B. Cowling); State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics, National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, Xiamen University School of Public Health, Xiamen, China (J. Zhang, N. Xia); University of Southampton, Southampton, UK (S. Lai); Royal Cornwall Hospital and European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter, Truro, UK (H.R. Dalton); Fudan University School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China (H. Yu)

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Figure 2

Age distribution of patients with reported cases of A) hepatitis A (blue, male patients; green, female patients) and B) hepatitis E (red, male patients; purple, female patients) in China for 1990–1999, 2000–2009, and 2010–2014. Incidence and mortality rates were calculated in 10-year age groups for the 3 periods. For each color, the darker shade represents incidence and the lighter shade represents mortality rate.

Figure 2. Age distribution of patients with reported cases of A) hepatitis A (blue, male patients; green, female patients) and B) hepatitis E (red, male patients; purple, female patients) in China for 1990–1999, 2000–2009, and 2010–2014. Incidence and mortality rates were calculated in 10-year age groups for the 3 periods. For each color, the darker shade represents incidence and the lighter shade represents mortality rate.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2These authors are joint senior authors.

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