Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2021)

Fatal Case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Caused by Reassortant Virus, Spain, 2018

  • Anabel Negredo,
  • Rafael Sánchez-Arroyo,
  • Francisco Díez-Fuertes,
  • Fernando de Ory,
  • Marco Antonio Budiño,
  • Ana Vázquez,
  • Ángeles Garcinuño,
  • Lourdes Hernández,
  • César de la Hoz González,
  • Almudena Gutiérrez-Arroyo,
  • Carmen Grande,
  • Paz Sánchez-Seco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2704.203462
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 4
pp. 1211 – 1215

Abstract

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In August 2018, a fatal autochthonous case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever was confirmed in western Spain. The complete sequence of the viral genome revealed circulation of a new virus because the genotype differs from that of the virus responsible for another case in 2016. Practitioners should be alert to possible new cases.

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