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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus genomics and global diversity.
Journal of virology - 1 Sept 2006
Deyde Varough M, Khristova Marina L, Rollin Pierre E, Ksiazek Thomas G, Nichol Stuart T
Abstract excerpt
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a severe illness with high case fatality that occurs in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The complete genomes of 13 geographically and temporally diverse virus strains were determined, and CCHF viruses were found to be highly variable with 20 and 8%, 31 and 27%, and 22 and 10% nucleotide and deduced amino acid differences detected among virus S (nucleocapsid), M...
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