Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever Virus inOrnithodoros savignyiTicks
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Controversy on virus designation: Alkhumra sive Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever flavivirus.
identity to the prototype strain. Alzahrani et al. [2] quote the paper by Zaki [5] . From this paper, however, it is not possible to obtain information on where the index patient came from. While both names can probably be justified, it should be the discoverer who has the right to name a virus. The debate should come to an end once the ICTV has made its statement. Another issue is that apparen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid1301.061094