Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova a fatal case report.docVIP

Virology Journal BioMedCentral Case Report Open Access Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever in Kosova : a fatal case report Salih Ahmeti1 and Lul Raka*2 Address: 1Infectious Disease Clinic, University Clinical Centre of Kosova Faculty of Medicine, Prishtina University, Rrethi i spitalit, p.n., 10 000 Prishtina, Kosova and 2Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health of Kosova Faculty of Medicine, Prishtina University, Rrethi ispitalit, p.n., 10 000 Prishtina, Kosova Email: Salih Ahmeti - salih_ahmeti@; Lul Raka* - lulraka@ * Corresponding author Published: 12 October 2006 Received: 06 June 2006 Accepted: 12 October 2006 Virology Journal 2006, 3:85 doi:10.1186/1743-422X-3-85 This article is available from: /content/3/1/85 ? 2006 Ahmeti and Raka; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an often fatal viral infection described in about 30 countries around the world. The authors report a fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) observed in a patient from Kosova. The diagnosis of CCHF was confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR. Late diagnosis decreased the efficacy of treatment and patient died due to severe complications of infection. Background ease, with a case fatality rate of 27% [8]. There were also a large number of patients who presented with clinical fea- tures of haemorrhagic fever, but confirmatory serological diagnosis was not available due to technical reasons. Kos- ova is also known as an endemic region for hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses, which can coexist with CCHF viruses. Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a tick- born disease caused by a Nai