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PRO/AH/EDR> Crimean-Congo hem. fever – Greece: ex Bulgaria
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever -- GreeceCCHF was 1st recognised in Bulgaria in 1952; since then, several cases have been reported. Genetic characterisation of the Bulgarian strains showed that they cluster into the clade Europe 1. Our patient was infected in an area that was considered at low risk for CCHF outbreaks up to 2008, when a cluster of cases was observed in the region. Although the seroprevalence in the human population in Blagoevgrad province is low (1 percent), a seroprevalence of 41.9 Read more [...]
