{"title":"Acute Complicated Brucellosis Mimicking Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) and Vice Versa","authors":"A. Heydari","doi":"10.29252/jommid.7.1.2.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), endemic to Asia, Africa, and southern Europe, is a tick-borne disease caused by the CCHF virus (Orthonairovirus in Nairoviridae family). The main route of transmission is tick bite, and close contact with virus-infected blood/tissues of humans or animals may also transmit the infection. CCHF is considered a significant public health problem with case fatality rate (CFR) of 5.4-80% [1].","PeriodicalId":34460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.29252/jommid.7.1.2.1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), endemic to Asia, Africa, and southern Europe, is a tick-borne disease caused by the CCHF virus (Orthonairovirus in Nairoviridae family). The main route of transmission is tick bite, and close contact with virus-infected blood/tissues of humans or animals may also transmit the infection. CCHF is considered a significant public health problem with case fatality rate (CFR) of 5.4-80% [1].