Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, southwestern Bulgaria

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 983-985

  Christova, Iva ^a   Di Caro, Antonino ^b   Papa, Anna ^c   Castilletti, Concetta ^b   Andonova, Lubena ^d   Kalvatchev, Nikolay ^a   Papadimitriou, Evangelia ^c   Carletti, Fabrizio ^b   Mohareb, Emad ^e   Capobianchi, Maria R ^b   Ippolito, Giuseppe ^b   Rezza, Giovanni ^f  

^a NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d Infectious Diseases Hospital   (Bulgaria)

^e US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^f ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; AUTOPSY; BULGARIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; NAIRO VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BULGARIA; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICKS;

EID: 67449088318     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1506.081567     Document Type: Letter

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