Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Southeast of Iran

Journal of Infection

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 378-382

  Alavi Naini, Roya ^a   Moghtaderi, Ali ^b   Koohpayeh, Hamid Reza ^a   Sharifi Mood, Batool ^a   Naderi, Mohammad ^a   Metanat, Malyhe ^a   Izadi, Morteza ^a  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo fever; Epidemiology; Iran

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; RIBAVIRIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NAIRO VIRUS; PETECHIA; PROGNOSIS; PURPURA; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 33645898659     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.07.015     Document Type: Article

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