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Contact the patient and their doctor to:

• Obtain patient’s travel history
• Obtain patient’s risk exposure history
• Obtain patient’s previous hepatitis A vaccination history
• Identify likely source of infection
• Confirm onset of symptoms (if any)
• Confirm results of relevant pathology tests
• Ensure that the patient is aware of diagnosis
• Ensure that contact tracing has commenced
• Refer contacts that have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus in the preceding 14 days for post-exposure prophylaxis

Contact the laboratory to:

• Obtain any outstanding results
• Ensure the sample is referred to the reference laboratory for PCR and genotyping​

Confirm case:

• Assess information against case definition

Other issues:

• Report case to the Communicable Diseases Branch (±·³§°Â±á-·¡²Ô³Ù±ð°ù¾±³¦°ª³ó±ð²¹±ô³Ù³ó.²Ô²õ·É.²µ´Ç±¹.²¹³Ü​)
• Enter case onto NCIMS​