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Prevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in healthy population, livestock and ticks in Kosovo.
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- Seroprevalence of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in humans in the World Health Organization European region: A systematic review.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2020Pooled it
- Multiple Reassortments, Limited Geographic Spread, and Comparable Pathogenicity of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses in Sivas Province, Türkiye.Journal of medical virology · 2026Article
- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: An emerging threat in Europe.Virologica Sinica · 2026Review
- A multisectoral effort against Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever: Towards One Health approach implementation in the Balkans and Black Sea region.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Tick Control Strategies: Critical Insights into Chemical, Biological, Physical, and Integrated Approaches for Effective Hard Tick Management.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in ticks, domestic, and wild animals.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Review
- Emerging Rhabdoviruses and Human Infection.Biology · 2023Review
- The Impact of Host Abundance on the Epidemiology of Tick-Borne Infection.Bulletin of mathematical biology · 2023Article
- The spatial pattern of human exposure to Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus is not consistent with red deer-based risk predictions.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- Ticks on the Run: A Mathematical Model of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF)-Key Factors for Transmission.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Sero-Epidemiological Survey of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever among the Human Population of the Punjab Province in Pakistan.Virologica Sinica · 2020Article
- Ixodid tick species and two tick-borne pathogens in three areas in the Sudan.Parasitology research · 2020Article
- Risk Factors for and Seroprevalence of Tickborne Zoonotic Diseases among Livestock Owners, Kazakhstan.Emerging infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Absence of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in the tick Hyalomma aegyptium parasitizing the spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) in Tunisia.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2019Article
- High seroprevalence for Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus in ruminants in the absence of reported human cases in many regions of Bulgaria.Experimental & applied acarology · 2018Article
- Sensitive and specific detection of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus (CCHFV)-Specific IgM and IgG antibodies in human sera using recombinant CCHFV nucleoprotein as antigen in μ-capture and IgG immune complex (IC) ELISA tests.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2018Article
- The reasons why Pakistan might be at high risk of Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever epidemic; a scoping review of the literature.Virology journal · 2017Article
- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in livestock ticks and animal handler seroprevalence at an abattoir in Ghana.BMC infectious diseases · 2016Article
- Sero-epidemiological survey of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus in Tunisia.Parasite (Paris, France) · 2016Article
- Seroepidemiological Studies of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Domestic and Wild Animals.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Review
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Abstract
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an acute, tick borne disease often associated with hemorrhagic presentations and high case fatality rate. Kosovo is a highly endemic area for CCHF, with a significant case fatality rate. The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of CCHF in Kosovo. We tested 1105 serum samples from healthy population in both endemic and non-endemic areas in the country. Our results revealed a seroprevalence of 4.0% (range 0-9.3%) which is comparable to the seroprevalence in other countries. We show that seroprevalence is correlated to the disease incidence in each studied municipality. We also tested 401 animal sera (353 cow, 30 sheep, 10 goat and 8 chicken) in four endemic municipalities in Kosovo. We detected specific antibodies in all animals except in chicken. Seroprevalence in cows is comparable to other endemic areas and correlates to the seroprevalence in humans. No CCHF RNA could be detected in 105 tick samples obtained in 2012 and 2013. Sequencing of CCHFV positive ticks from 2001 revealed that the virus is most closely related to viral strains that were detected in CCHF patients from Kosovo. Results suggest that mild CCHF cases are most probably underdiagnosed and consequently that the burden of disease is higher than reported. Our study provides key information for CCHF surveillance and raises awareness for possible imported cases in CCHF non-endemic countries.
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