Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Turkey

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1379-1384

  Karti, S Sami ^a   Odabasi, Zekaver ^b   Korten, Volkan ^b   Yilmaz, Mustafa ^a   Sonmez, Mehmet ^a   Caylan, Rahmet ^a   Akdogan, Elif ^a   Eren, Necmi ^a   Koksai, Iftihar ^a   Ovali, Ercument ^a   Erickson, Bobbie R ^c   Vincent, Martin J ^c   Nichol, Stuart T ^c   Comer, James A ^c   Rollin, Pierre E ^c   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^c  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MARMARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LIVESTOCK; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS ISOLATION; YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

EID: 3543042488     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1008.030928     Document Type: Article

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