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Volume 27, Number 6—June 2021
Research Letter

Retrospective Identification of Early Autochthonous Case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Spain, 2013

Ana Negredo1, María Sánchez-Ledesma1, Francisco Llorente, Mayte Pérez-Olmeda, Moncef Belhassen-García, David González-Calle, María Paz Sánchez-Seco2, and Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Clavero2Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (A. Negredo, M.P. Sánchez-Seco, M. Pérez-Olmeda); Hospital Universitario de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain (M. Sánchez-Ledesma, M. Belhassen-García, D. González-Calle); Animal Health Research Center, INIA-CISA, Valdeolmos, Spain (F. Llorente, M.A. Jiménez-Clavero); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiologia y Salud Pública, Madrid (M.A. Jiménez-Clavero)

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Table

Human cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever reported to date, in chronological order, Spain

Year No. cases Autonomous community/province Reference
2013 1 Castile and León/Ávila This study
2016 2 Castile and León/Ávila (index case); community of Madrid/Madrid (secondary case) (3)
2018 2 Extremadura/Badajoz; Castile and León/Salamanca (4)
2020 3 Castile and León/Salamanca (5)

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

2These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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