Alkhurma Hemorrhagic Fever in Travelers Returning from Egypt, 2010

Two travelers returning to Italy from southern Egypt were hospitalized with a fever of unknown origin. Test results showed infection with Alkhurma virus. The geographic distribution of this virus could be broader than previously thought.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2010-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1612101092PMID 21122237PMCID 3294557
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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