Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Greece: a public health perspective

Autor: Sotirios Tsiodras, Vasiliki Dalla, Antonios Antoniadis, Efstratios Maltezos, Anna Papa, Helen C. Maltezou
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 13:713-716
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2008.11.011
Popis: SummaryIn June 2008 the first non-imported fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) was recorded in northern Greece. We present herein the public health interventions and the case definitions we developed for the epidemiological investigation. The possibility of CCHF establishing endemicity in this area is discussed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE