CrimeaneCongo hemorrhagic fever: Risk for emergence of new endemic foci in Europe?

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-143

  Maltezou, Helena C ^a   Papa, Anna ^b  

^a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

CrimeaneCongo hemorrhagic fever; Emergence; Southeastern Europe; Turkey; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ECOLOGY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TICK; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EUROPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NAIRO VIRUS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EUROPE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77957274418     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2010.04.008     Document Type: Review

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