Seroprevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Bulgaria

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 177-179

  Christova, Iva ^a   Gladnishka, Teodora ^a   Taseva, Evgenia ^a   Kalvatchev, Nikolay ^a   Tsergouli, Katerina ^b   Papa, Anna ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; BULGARIA; CHILD; CLIMATE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GREECE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NAIRO VIRUS; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SEX; TICK BITE; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARACHNID VECTORS; BULGARIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICKS;

EID: 84871625184     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1901.120299     Document Type: Letter

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