Emergence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 676-678

  Leblebicioglu, Hakan ^a   Ozaras, Resat ^b   Erciyas Yavuz, Kiraz ^c  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever; Ecology; Emergence; Migratory birds; Turkey

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; INFECTION RISK; IRAN; IRAQ; MIGRANT BIRD; MOLDOVA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PAKISTAN; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; TAJIKISTAN; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UKRAINE; ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH; HUMAN; NAIROVIRUS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARASITE VECTOR; PATHOGENICITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84946734960     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trv083     Document Type: Note

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