Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2014)

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Greece

  • Anna Papa,
  • Persefoni Sidira,
  • Victor Larichev,
  • Ludmila Gavrilova,
  • Ksenia Kuzmina,
  • Mehrdad Mousavi-Jazi,
  • Ali Mirazimi,
  • Ute Ströher,
  • Stuart Nichol

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2002.130690
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2
pp. 288 – 290

Abstract

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Seroprevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) is high in some regions of Greece, but only 1 case of disease has been reported. We used 4 methods to test 118 serum samples that were positive for CCHFV IgG by commercial ELISA and confirmed the positive results. A nonpathogenic or low-pathogenicity strain may be circulating.

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