A SEROLOGICAL SURVEY IN SUSPECTED HUMAN PATIENTS OF CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER IN IRAN BY DETERMINATION OF IGM-SPECIFIC ELISA METHOD DURING 2000 - 2004

Sadegh Chinikar (1) , Vaheideh Mazaheri (1) , Ramin Mirahmadi (1) , Pierre Nabeth (2) , Marie Francoise Saron (2) , Parisa Salehi (1) , Nafiseh Hosseini (1) , Michele Bouloy (3) , Ali Mirazimi (4) , Ake Lundkvist (5) , Mikael Nilsson (5) , Ali Mehrabi-Tavana (6)

1 Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Laboratory
2 Institut Pasteur de Dakar
3 Génétique Moléculaire des Bunyavirus
4 Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
5 Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control
6 Department of Medical Microbiology and Military Health Research Center

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a zoonotic arboviral disease, which is transmitted to humans via tick bite or via human or domestic animal blood transmission, in particular sheep, goats, and cows.

Keywords: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever; Iran; serology

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Sadegh Chinikar, Vaheideh Mazaheri, Ramin Mirahmadi, Pierre Nabeth, Marie Francoise Saron, et al.. A SEROLOGICAL SURVEY IN SUSPECTED HUMAN PATIENTS OF CRIMEAN-CONGO HEMORRHAGIC FEVER IN IRAN BY DETERMINATION OF IGM-SPECIFIC ELISA METHOD DURING 2000 - 2004. Archives of Iranian Medicine, 2005, 8 (1), pp.52-55. ⟨pasteur-00748073⟩