Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in ticks from imported livestock, Egypt

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 181-182

  Chisholm, Katherine ^a   Dueger, Erica ^b   Fahmy, Nermeen T ^a   Samaha, Hamed Abdel Tawab ^c   Zayed, Alia ^a   Abdel Dayem, Mahmoud ^a   Villinski, Jeffrey T ^a  

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

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BOOPHILUS; CAMEL; CATTLE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE CARRIER; ECTOPARASITE; EGYPT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; LETTER; LIVESTOCK; MIDDLE EAST; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SOMALIA; SUDAN; TICK;

ANIMALS; CELLULASES; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; IXODIDAE; LIVESTOCK; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RUMINANTS;

EID: 84856570133     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.111071     Document Type: Letter

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