Surveillance of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Pakistan

Surveillance of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Pakistan

[...]the exceedingly abundant prevalence of hyalomma ticks in Pakistan, largely during the summer months, is well documented,4 thus substantiating our findings that the CCHF cases in Pakistan might appear independently of Eid-ul-Adha, and their occurrence has coincided with the peak season of tick p...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet infectious diseases 2017-08, Vol.17 (8), p.806-806
Hauptverfasser: Alam, Muhammad Masroor, Khurshid, Adnan, Rana, Muhammad Suleman, Aamir, Uzma Bashir, Salman, Muhammad, Ahmad, Mukhtar
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Animals
Arachnid Vectors - virology
Crimean hemorrhagic fever
Disease
Epidemiological Monitoring
Epidemiology
Fever
Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo - pathogenicity
Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo - physiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean - epidemiology
Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean - transmission
Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean - virology
Holidays
Humans
Infectious diseases
Islam
Laboratories
Pakistan - epidemiology
Seasons
Surveillance
Tick Infestations - epidemiology
Tick Infestations - virology
Ticks
Ticks - virology
Viruses
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Zusammenfassung:[...]the exceedingly abundant prevalence of hyalomma ticks in Pakistan, largely during the summer months, is well documented,4 thus substantiating our findings that the CCHF cases in Pakistan might appear independently of Eid-ul-Adha, and their occurrence has coincided with the peak season of tick proliferation during the preceding 8-10 years. Supplementary Material 1 AM Karim, I Hussain, JH Lee, KS Park, SH Lee, Surveillance of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Pakistan, Lancet Infect Dis, Vol. 17, 2017,...
ISSN:1473-3099
1474-4457
DOI:10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30403-6