Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Greece

Seroprevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is high in some regions of Greece, but only 1 case of disease has been reported. We used 4 methods to test 118 serum samples that were positive for CCHFV IgG by commercial ELISA and confirmed the positive results. A nonpathogenic or low...

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Autores principales: Papa, Anna, Sidira, Persefoni, Larichev, Victor, Gavrilova, Ludmila, Kuzmina, Ksenia, Mousavi-Jazi, Mehrdad, Mirazimi, Ali, Ströher, Ute, Nichol, Stuart
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3901484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24447877
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2002.130690
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Sumario:Seroprevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is high in some regions of Greece, but only 1 case of disease has been reported. We used 4 methods to test 118 serum samples that were positive for CCHFV IgG by commercial ELISA and confirmed the positive results. A nonpathogenic or low-pathogenicity strain may be circulating.

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