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| Year : 2019 |
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Contact tracing for an imported case of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever – Experience from a tertiary care center in Kerala, South India
Ronnie Thomas1, Flossy Mathew1, Edwin Mathew Louis1, Chithra Valsan2, R Priyanka1, Joe Thomas1, Lucy Raphael1
1 Department of Community Medicine, Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India
2 Department of Microbiology, Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Ronnie Thomas
Department of Community Medicine, Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, Thrissur - 680 005, Kerala
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_1_19
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A 30-year-old male working in an abattoir in UAE returned home to Kerala, South India, after getting diagnosed with Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever infection. He was admitted to a tertiary care center on the day of arrival and was placed under isolation. Due to the risk of spread of infection among health-care workers, contact-tracing and symptom-monitoring activities were undertaken. As strict standard contact precautions, isolation, contact identification and listing, quarantine, and sensitization of health-care workers were implemented, no secondary cases occurred.
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