Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever as causes of acute undifferentiated febrile illness in Bulgaria

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 188-192

  Christova, Iva ^a   Younan, Rasha ^b   Taseva, Evgenia ^a   Gladnishka, Teodora ^a   Trifonova, Iva ^a   Ivanova, Vladislava ^a   Spik, Kristin ^c   Schmaljohn, Connie ^c   Mohareb, Emad ^b  

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

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

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute febrile illness; Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus; Hantaviruses

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLAQUE REDUCTION NEUTRALIZATION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BULGARIA; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HANTAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PREVALENCE; VERO CELLS;

EID: 84875196752     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2011.0938     Document Type: Article

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