Nosocomial infection of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in eastern Iran: Case report

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 252-255

  Chinikar, Sadegh ^a   Shayesteh, Majid ^b   Khakifirouz, Sahar ^a   Jalali, Tahmineh ^a   Rasi Varaie, Fereshteh Sadat ^a   Rafigh, Mahboubeh ^a   Mostafavi, Ehsan ^a   Shah Hosseini, Nariman ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRJAND   (Iran)

Author keywords

CCHF; Iran; Khorasan; Nosocomial; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; HYDROCORTISONE; RIBAVIRIN; SULTAMICILLIN; UREA; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; IRAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VOMITING; BLOOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NAIROVIRUS; NURSE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; IRAN; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 84881476529     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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