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Laboratory Diagnosis of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

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Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) can induce in humans a severe multisystem syndrome associated with fever, shock, and hemorrhages. In absence of specific clinical symptoms, physicians need a rapid and reliable diagnosis to reinforce the measures of safety (barrier nursing), and possibly to initiate quickly a suitable antiviral treatment. Equally, a differential diagnosis with other agents responsible of hemorrhagic fevers according to epidemiological features has to be undertaken [18, 51].

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Zeller, H. (2007). Laboratory Diagnosis of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. In: Ergonul, O., Whitehouse, C.A. (eds) Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6106-6_18

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