Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Clades V and VI (Europe 1 and 2) in Ticks in Kosovo, 2012

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Sherifi, Kurtesh ^a   Cadar, Daniel ^b   Muji, Skender ^a   Robaj, Avni ^a   Ahmeti, Salih ^c   Jakupi, Xhevat ^d   Emmerich, Petra ^b   Krüger, Andreas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRISHTINA   (Serbia)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c University Clinical Centre   (Serbia)

^d Department of Microbiology National Institute for Public Health of Kosova   (Serbia)

^e Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; IXODES RICINUS; KOSOVO; NAIRO VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS BURSA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; NAIROVIRUS; TICK; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; KOSOVO; TICKS;

EID: 84907587205     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003168     Document Type: Article

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