Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an often fatal viral infection described in about 30 countries around the world. The authors report a fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) observed in a patient from Kosova. The diagnosis of CCHF was confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR. L...

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Autores principales: Ahmeti, Salih, Raka, Lul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1624825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17034648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-3-85
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description Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an often fatal viral infection described in about 30 countries around the world. The authors report a fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) observed in a patient from Kosova. The diagnosis of CCHF was confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR. Late diagnosis decreased the efficacy of treatment and patient died due to severe complications of infection.
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spelling pubmed-16248252006-10-26 Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report Ahmeti, Salih Raka, Lul Virol J Case Report Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an often fatal viral infection described in about 30 countries around the world. The authors report a fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) observed in a patient from Kosova. The diagnosis of CCHF was confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR. Late diagnosis decreased the efficacy of treatment and patient died due to severe complications of infection. BioMed Central 2006-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC1624825/ /pubmed/17034648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-3-85 Text en Copyright © 2006 Ahmeti and Raka; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report
title Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report
title_full Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report
title_fullStr Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report
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title_short Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report
title_sort crimean-congo haemorrhagic fever in kosova : a fatal case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1624825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17034648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-3-85
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