Crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever: treatment and control strategy in admitted patients
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Crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever: treatment and control strategy in admitted patients
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Crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever: treatment and control strategy in admitted patients.
Sir Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is an acute, tick-borne viral, zoonotic disease with hemorrhagic manifestations and considerable mortality in humans. It was first observed in Crimea in 1944 and was first isolated in Africa (Congo) from a febrile patient in 1956. The virus is widely distributed around the world (1, 2). CCHF is caused by an RNA virus. This virus has been classified as ...
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full text[Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever].
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was for the first time recognized in Yugoslavia in 1971. In this paper were presented clinical and laboratory findings of a patient infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Kosovo in 1999. The disease was manifested with fever, headache, vomiting, myalgia, abdominal pain, pharyngitis, conjuctival injection, diarrhoea, hypotension, gingival bleeding, skin ...
full textCrimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a tick-borne viral disease reported from more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, South-East Europe, and the Middle East. The majority of human cases are workers in livestock industry, agriculture, slaughterhouses, and veterinary practice. Nosocomial transmission is also well described. Clinical manifestations are nonspecific and symptoms typically include high...
full textCrimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick-borne disease caused by the arbovirus Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV), which is a member of the Nairovirus genus (family Bunyaviridae). CCHF was first recognized during a large outbreak among agricultural workers in the mid-1940s in the Crimean peninsula. The disease now occurs sporadically throughout much of Africa, Asia, and Europ...
full textCrimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Mauritania
From February to August 2003, 38 persons were infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus in Mauritania; 35 of these persons were residents of Nouakchott. The first patient was a young woman who became ill shortly after butchering a goat. She transmitted the infection to 15 persons in the hospital where she was admitted and four members of her family. In Nouakchott, two disease c...
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volume 3 issue None
pages 443- 444
publication date 2012-01
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