Molecular detection of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in ticks from southeastern Iran

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 35-38

  Mehravaran, Ahmad ^a   Moradi, Maryam ^b   Telmadarraiy, Zakyeh ^c   Mostafavi, Ehsan ^b   Moradi, Ali Reza ^d   Khakifirouz, Sahar ^b   Shah Hosseini, Nariman ^b   Varaie, Fereshteh Sadat Rasi ^b   Jalali, Tahmineh ^b   Hekmat, Soheila ^b   Ghiasi, Seyed Mojtaba ^b   Chinikar, Sadegh ^b  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF); Haemaphysalis; Hyalomma; RT PCR; Sistan and Baluchistan; Tick; Zahedan

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; FEMALE; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HYALOMMA; IRAN; LIVESTOCK; MALE; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; IRAN; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICKS;

ANIMALIA; BUNYAVIRIDAE; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HYALOMMA; IXODIDA; NAIROVIRUS;

EID: 84872606327     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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