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Year : 2015 | Volume
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Report of nine cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever From Iran
Jamshid Ayatollahi, Seyed Hossein Shahcheraghi, Mahmood Mirjalili
Department of Infectious Diseases, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Correspondence Address:
Seyed Hossein Shahcheraghi Department of Infectious Diseases, Infectious and Tropical Diseases Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd Iran
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0300-1652.153409
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Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an often fatal viral infection described in about 30 countries around the world. It is transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected tick and by direct contact with blood or tissue from infected humans and livestock. In the following, we report nine cases of CCHF disease. This paper reported nine human CCHF cases, two in Tabas and Bandar Abbas and seven in Yazd. They were 21-, 33-, 28-, 29-, 61, 34, 35, 36 and 52 year-old men. The first, second and third patients were butchers and other patients were farmers. CCHF should be investigated in the patients with fever, bleeding and low platelet counts. |
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