Crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Greece

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 288-290

  Papa, Anna ^a   Sidira, Persefoni ^a   Larichev, Victor ^b   Gavrilova, Ludmila ^b   Kuzmina, Ksenia ^b   Mousavi Jazi, Mehrdad ^c   Mirazimi, Ali ^c,d,e   Ströher, Ute ^f   Nichol, Stuart ^f  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCHFV; CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS; ELISA; GREECE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE ASSAY; NEUTRALIZATION TEST; SEROPREVALENCE; TICKS; VECTOR-BORNE INFECTIONS; VIRUSES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GREECE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 84892606936     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2002.130690     Document Type: Article

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