A survey of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in livestock and ticks in Ardabil Province, Iran during 2004-2005

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-141

  Telmadarraiy, Z ^a   Ghiasi, Seyed Mojtaba ^b   Moradi, Maryam ^b   Vatandoost, Hasan ^a   Eshraghian, Mohammad Reza ^a   Faghihi, Faezeh ^a   Zarei, Zabiollah ^a   Haeri, Ali ^c   Chinikar, Sadegh ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; IRAN; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS HEMORRHAGIC FEVER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IRAN; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICKS;

EID: 75749116689     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365540903362501     Document Type: Article

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