Genetic detection and isolation of crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Kosovo, Yugoslavia.

ABSTRACT: Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (C-CHFV) strains were isolated from a fatal case and the attending physician in Kosovo, Yugoslavia. Early, rapid diagnosis of the disease was achieved by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. The physician was successfully treated with oral ribavirin. These cases yielded the first genetically studied C-CHFV human isolates in the Balkans.

SUBMITTER: Papa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2732509 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature