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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-2
pubmed:abstractText
Alkhurma virus is a flavivirus, discovered in 1994 in a person who died of hemorrhagic fever after slaughtering a sheep from the city of Alkhurma, Saudi Arabia. Since then, several cases of Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever (ALKHF), with fatality rates up to 25%, have been documented. From January 1, 2006, through April 1, 2009, active disease surveillance and serologic testing of household contacts identified ALKHF in 28 persons in Najran, Saudi Arabia. For epidemiologic comparison, serologic testing of household and neighborhood controls identified 65 serologically negative persons. Among ALKHF patients, 11 were hospitalized and 17 had subclinical infection. Univariate analysis indicated that the following were associated with Alkhurma virus infection: contact with domestic animals, feeding and slaughtering animals, handling raw meat products, drinking unpasteurized milk, and being bitten by a tick. After multivariate modeling, the following associations remained significant: animal contact, neighboring farms, and tick bites.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1080-6059
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1882-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Antibodies, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Bites and Stings, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Case-Control Studies, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Child, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Contact Tracing, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Disease Outbreaks, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Encephalitis, Tick-Borne, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Female, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Livestock, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Male, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-RNA, Viral, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Saudi Arabia, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Seasons, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Seroepidemiologic Studies, pubmed-meshheading:21122217-Ticks
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever in humans, Najran, Saudi Arabia.
pubmed:affiliation
Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't