Travel medicine and infectious disease
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Travel Med Infect Dis · Jul 2013
Case ReportsNosocomial infection of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in eastern Iran: case report.
An outbreak of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever occurred in the county of Birjand in eastern Iran in November 2011. Four cases were involved in this outbreak. Two patients died after admission to hospital, one of whom was a nurse who acquired the infection nosocomially, and the others were treated successfully.