Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever: transmission to visitors and healthcare workers

Infection

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 687-689

  Yildirmak, T ^a   Tulek, N ^b   Bulut, C ^b  

^a OKMEYDANI TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever; Nosocomial; Transmission; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COW; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CRIMEAN CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; DISEASE DURATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NONHUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT VISITOR; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECONDARY CARE CENTER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK BITE; TREATMENT DURATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VIRUS TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NAIROVIRUS; TRANSMISSION; TURKEY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, CRIMEAN; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978140739     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-016-0923-x     Document Type: Article

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