Morbidity and mortality of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Iraq: Cases reported to the National Surveillance System, 1990-2010

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 480-483

  Majeed, Ban ^a   Dicker, Richard ^a   Nawar, Adnan ^b   Badri, Sumaia ^b   Noah, Anwar ^b   Muslem, Hassan ^b  

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

^b MOH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever; Iraq; National Surveillance System

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD HANDLING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; TICKS; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84863605680     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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