Medical examiners and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever contamination risk

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-36

  Ozsoy, Sait ^a   Gokmen, Asude ^b   Ozdemir, Mehtap ^b   Akduman, Baris ^b   Korkusuz, Irfan ^b   Javan, Gulnaz T ^c  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Council of Forensic Medicine Ankara Group manship ^*  (Turkey)

^c ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Contamination; Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever; Microbiology

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOSAFETY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILL; COLON HEMORRHAGE; CONVULSION; CORONER; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBULA FRACTURE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; LIVER HEMORRHAGE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; MELENA; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NOSE FRACTURE; PANCREAS HEMORRHAGE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PETECHIA; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH PAIN; TIBIA FRACTURE; TICK BITE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEAKNESS; YOUNG ADULT; BLEEDING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NAIROVIRUS; PATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TRANSMISSION; TURKEY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CORONERS AND MEDICAL EXAMINERS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84941335542     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: 18787487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2015.08.010     Document Type: Article

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