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Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: history, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical syndrome and genetic diversity.
Antiviral research - 1 Oct 2013
Bente Dennis A, Forrester Naomi L, Watts Douglas M, McAuley Alexander J, Whitehouse Chris A, Bray Mike
Abstract excerpt
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is the most important tick-borne viral disease of humans, causing sporadic cases or outbreaks of severe illness across a huge geographic area, from western China to the Middle East and southeastern Europe and throughout most of Africa. CCHFV is maintained in vertical and horizontal transmission cycles involving ixodid ticks and a variety of wild and domestic vertebrates,...
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