Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: a first case from Abbottabad, Pakistan

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Saleem, Junaid ^a   Usman, Muhammad ^a   Nadeem, Ahmad ^a   Sethi, Shakeel Afzal ^a   Salman, Muhammad ^b  

^a Peshawar Cantonment   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus; Pakistan; Ribavirin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; HEMOGLOBIN; RIBAVIRIN; UREA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPISTAXIS; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATURIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PAKISTAN; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEINURIA; PURPURIC RASH; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; URINALYSIS; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VITAL SIGN;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CHEMOPREVENTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CROSS INFECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; PAKISTAN; RIBAVIRIN;

EID: 64649088525     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.07.023     Document Type: Article

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