Short report: Fatal nosocomial spread of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever with very short incubation period

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 469-471

  Naderi, HamidReza ^a   Sheybani, Fereshte ^a   Bojdi, Amin ^a   Khosravi, Nasrin ^a   Mostafavi, Irandokht ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CASE REPORT; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; IRAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FATALITY; NEEDLESTICK INJURY;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; MALE; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; PLATELET TRANSFUSION; PREDNISOLONE; RIBAVIRIN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877089660     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2012.12-0337     Document Type: Article

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