Volume 10, Number 8, August 2004

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Turkey

S. Sami Karti,* Zekaver Odabasi,† Volkan Korten,† Mustafa Yilmaz,* Mehmet Sonmez,* Rahmet Caylan,* Elif Akdogan,* Necmi Eren,* Iftihar Koksal,* Ercument Ovali,* Bobbie R. Erickson,‡ Martin J. Vincent,‡ Stuart T. Nichol,‡ James A. Comer,‡ Pierre E. Rollin,‡ and Thomas G. Ksiazek‡
*Karadeniz Technical University, School of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey; †Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey; and ‡Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Figure 2. Geographic distribution of patients with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Turkey, 2002–2003. Residency of the patients with CCHF infection from our series is marked in the circle. Epicenter of a concurrent outbreak presented at the recent conference in Ankara is shown as a rectangle.

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