Abstract
A patient with fever, and haemorrhagic symptoms was admitted to a hospital in Glasgow on 2 October 2012. Since he had returned from Afghanistan, serum samples were sent for diagnosis at the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory, where a real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR diagnosis of Crimean – Congo haemorrhagic fever was made within 3 hrs after receipt of the sample. Hereafter the patient was transferred to a high-security infectious diseases unit in London but died on 6 October.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Comparative Study
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Afghanistan / epidemiology
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Biomarkers
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Disease Outbreaks
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Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo*
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Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean / diagnosis
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Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean / mortality*
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Humans
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Immunoglobulin G / biosynthesis
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Immunoglobulin M / biosynthesis
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London / epidemiology
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Male
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods
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Travel*
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United Arab Emirates / epidemiology
Substances
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Biomarkers
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Immunoglobulin G
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Immunoglobulin M