TY - JOUR AU - Boushab, Boushab Mohamed AU - Kelly, Mamadou AU - Kébé, Hasmiou AU - Bollahi, Mohamed Abdallahi AU - Basco, Leonardo T1 - Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Mauritania T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 817 SN - 1080-6059 AB - The distribution of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a tickborne arboviral disease, is not well known in West Africa. We report 2 recent human cases of CCHF with infectious syndrome and severe bleeding in Mauritania. CCHF was diagnosed by ELISA and real time reverse transcription PCR. No secondary CCHF cases were found. KW - Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever KW - tickborne virus KW - hemorrhagic fever KW - viruses KW - arboviruses KW - zoonoses KW - Mauritania KW - West Africa DO - 10.3201/eid2604.191292 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-1292_article ER - End of Reference