Publications

first isolation of congo-crimean haemorrhagic fever virus in madagascar.		1988	3144994
antibodies to haemorrhagic fever viruses in madagascar populations.	sera of 381 adult people from 5 areas in madagascar were tested by the indirect immunofluorescence method for antibodies against congo-crimean haemorrhagic fever and rift valley fever viruses (bunyaviridae), ebola (strains zaire and sudan) and marburg viruses (filoviridae), and lassa virus (arenaviridae). the highest prevalence rate was that of ebola virus (4.5%). as no haemorrhagic syndrome has been found associated with this virus, the possible presence of a less pathogenic, antigenically rela ...	1989	2515626
crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever serosurvey in at-risk professionals, madagascar, 2008 and 2009.	crimean-congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf) is a zoonotic arboviral infection with hemorrhagic manifestation and often a fatal ending. human become infected mainly through tick bite or by crushing infected tick, by contact with blood or tissues from viraemic livestock or patient. cchf virus (cchfv) has been isolated once in madagascar but data on the epidemiology of the disease in the country are very scarce.	2011	21889395