Circulation of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia revealed by screening of cattle sera using a novel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

• Main Authors: Marc Mertens (Author), Zati Vatansever (Author), Slavcho Mrenoshki (Author), Kiril Krstevski (Author), Jovana Stefanovska (Author), Igor Djadjovski (Author), Iskra Cvetkovikj (Author), Robert Farkas (Author), Isolde Schuster (Author), Fabien Donnet (Author), Loic Comtet (Author), Noël Tordo (Author), Mohamed Ben Mechlia (Author), Anne Balkema-Buschmann (Author), Dine Mitrov (Author), Martin H Groschup (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:There are only few assays available for the detection of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV)-specific antibodies in animals, and data about diagnostic sensitivity and specificity are incompletely documented for most of these tests. This is unfortunate since CCHFV antibodies in a...