Emergence of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Greece

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 843-847

  Papa, A ^a,b   Dalla, V ^c   Papadimitriou, E ^a,b   Kartalis, G N ^c   Antoniadis, A ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Arboviruses and Haemorrhagic Fever Viruses   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever; Cytokines; Greece; PCR; Quantitative real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN III; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOKINE; DOXYCYCLINE; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; DEATH; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NAIRO VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIOSIS; SUMMER; SYMPTOM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 77954633936     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02996.x     Document Type: Article

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