Objective<\/strong>: Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been reported particularly in the north-eastern part of Anatolia in Turkey. However, in recent years, many cases have been reported from western cities. Although Aydin is considered as a non-endemic area, 50 cases have been reported between 2006 and 2014. In a previous study, IgG seropositivity was found to be 19.6% in the endemic regions of Aydin. The aim of this study is to determine the seropositivity rates and contributing factors in non-endemic regions of Aydin as well as revealing the position of Aydin on the CCHF map of Turkey.<\/p>\n Methods<\/strong>: Two hundred and ninety-three volunteers were enrolled in this study. Volunteers were asked seventeen questions related to demographic and factual features by face-to-face interviews. The VectoCrimea-CHF-IgG (Vector-Best, Novosibirsk, Russia) ELISA diagnostic kit was used to detect the virus-specific antibodies in serum samples of the volunteers.<\/p>\n Results<\/strong>: IgG seropositivity in the study group was found to be 19.7% (n=58). Twenty-seven (27%) of 100 female participants and 31 (16.1%) of 193 male participants were seropositive for CCHF virus (p<0.05). Seropositivity was significantly higher in female sex (p=0.02). The most effective variable on IgG positivity in \u03c72 automatic interaction detection analysis was found to be the region. The highest seropositivity was found in Aydin city centre with 29.5% among all study areas (p=0.006).<\/p>\n Conclusions<\/strong>: In our study, we found that seropositivity of non-endemic regions (19.7%) was similar to the endemic regions (19.6%) in Aydin. In high risk areas of our country, IgG seroprevalence is reported as 12.8%. So, we think that Aydin should be considered as an endemic city. Klimik Dergisi 2017; 30(1): 9-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abstract Objective: Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been reported particularly in the north-eastern part of Anatolia in Turkey. However, in recent years, many cases have been reported from western cities. Although Aydin is considered as a non-endemic area, 50 cases have been reported between 2006 and 2014. In a previous study, IgG seropositivity was found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2661,4014,4593,4591],"class_list":["post-15108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-article","tag-cpidemiologtj","tag-crimeancongo-haemorrhagic-fever-virus","tag-g-seropositivity","tag-immunoglobulin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.klimikdergisi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}