Molecular Assay on Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks (Ixodidae) Collected from Kermanshah Province, Western Iran

• Main Authors: Maria Mohammadian (Author), Sadegh Chinikar (Author), Zakkyeh Telmadarraiy (Author), Hassan Vatandoost (Author), Mohammad Ali Oshaghi (Author), Ahmad Ali Hanafi-Bojd (Author), Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat (Author), Mehdi Noroozi (Author), Faezeh Faghihi (Author), Tahmineh Jalali (Author), Sahar Khakifirouz (Author), Nariman Shahhosseini (Author), Firoozeh Farhadpour (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) is a feverous and hemorrhagic disease endemic in some parts of Iran and caused by an arbovirus related to Bunyaviridae family and Nairovirusgenus. The main virus reser­voir in the nature is ticks, however small vertebrates and a wide range of domest...