Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks, Southwestern Europe, 2010
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Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks, Southwestern Europe, 2010
To the Editor: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV; family Bunyaviridae, genus Nairovirus) causes outbreaks of severe hemorrhagic fever in humans, with case-fatality rates <30% (1,2). The disease was initially recognized by Russian scientists in the 1940s (3), and the virus was fi rst isolated in the Democratic Republic of Congo some years later (4). CCHFV is reported throughout broad ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid1801.111040