Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Southwestern Bulgaria

Iva Christova

, Antonino Di Caro, Anna Papa, Concetta Castilletti, Lubena Andonova, Nikolay Kalvatchev, Evangelia Papadimitriou, Fabrizio Carletti, Emad Mohareb, Maria R. Capobianchi, Giuseppe Ippolito, and Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Author affiliations: National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Sofia, Bulgaria (I. Christova, N. Kalvachev); National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani,” Rome, Italy (A. Di Caro, C. Castilletti, F. Carletti, M.R. Capobianchi, G. Ippolito); Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (A. Papa, E. Papadimitriou); Infectious Diseases Hospital, Sofia (L. Andonova); US Naval Medical Research Unit 3, Cairo, Egypt (E. Mohareb); Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome (G. Rezza).

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Phylogenetic tree of partial sequence (256 bp) of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus nucleoprotein gene. CCHF virus sequences are listed as viral strain name and country of origin. Sequence of case 3 is designated in the tree as “Gotse Delchev Bulgaria,” and sequence of case 4 is designated as “Bul 2008 Bulgaria” (in boldface). Strain AP92, Greece, was used as an outgroup. Numbers at the nodes represent bootstrap values. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

Figure. Phylogenetic tree of partial sequence (256 bp) of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus nucleoprotein gene. CCHF virus sequences are listed as viral strain name and country of origin. Sequence of case 3 is designated in the tree as “Gotse Delchev Bulgaria,” and sequence of case 4 is designated as “Bul 2008 Bulgaria” (in boldface). Strain AP92, Greece, was used as an outgroup. Numbers at the nodes represent bootstrap values. Scale bar indicates number of nucleotide substitutions per site.

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