Authors: A Papa S Bino A Llagami B Brahimaj E Papadimitriou V Pavlidou E Velo G Cahani M Hajdini A Pilaca A Harxhi A Antoniadis
Publish Date: 2014/02/01
Volume: 21, Issue: 8, Pages: 603-606
Abstract
During the spring and summer of 2001 an outbreak of eight cases of CrimeanCongo hemorrhagic fever CCHF occurred in Albania The epidemiological investigation the clinical presentation of the cases and the course of the disease are described Seven of the cases were laboratory confirmed A nosocomial infection and a cluster of cases within a family were observed Genetic analysis of the CCHF virus strain that caused the outbreak showed that it was clustered together with other European CCHF virus strains except the Greek one strain AP92 The Greek strain which forms an independent clade differed from the causative strain by 253 at the nucleotide level
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