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Infectious Diseases
Studies from A. Erbay et al provide new data on infectious diseases
April 8th, 2008
"Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is potentially a fatal disease transmitted by tick bite, close contact with blood or tissues of infected humans or viraemic livestock," investigators in Ankara, Turkey report. "We present the clinical course of 2 breastfeeding women with CCHF and their babies. Both the mothers had positive reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction for CCHF virus in blood and it was negative in breast milk," wrote A. Erbay and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "At follow-up, babies did not develop CCHF infection." Erbay and colleagues published their study in Scandinavian Journal of Infectious...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-04-08)
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