Ethical statement
This study received approval from the ethical committee of Medicine Faculty Skopje, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje (Ethical approval No. 03–1835/2). The report was conducted in compliance with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki and adhered to The Patient Rights Law of the Republic of North Macedonia.
Funding statement
This report received no funding.
Use of artificial intelligence tools
None declared
Data availability
Obtained sequences are deposited at GeneBank Database (submission ID: 2822305)
Acknowledgements
The research was performed in collaboration with the Hungarian Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Szentágothai Research Centre of the University of Pécs. The work was supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, grant number: RRF-2.3.1-21-2022-00010 “National Laboratory of Virology”.
We would like to convey our appreciation to the Institute of Public Health of North Macedonia, with a special emphasis on the Laboratory of Virology, for their confirmation of the CCHFV infection. We are also deeply thankful to the team responsible for conducting the initial phase of the field epidemiology investigation and contact tracing. Furthermore, we extend our gratitude to the Centre of Public Health in Skopje for their diligent efforts in carrying out the second stage of contact tracing following the confirmation of Case 2 and 3. Lastly, our sincere thanks go out to the entire team at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions in Skopje, as well as the Clinical Hospital in Shtip, for their dedicated contributions.
Conflict of interest
None declared
Authors’ contributions
Dejan Jakimovski: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Pavle Banović: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Supervision
Katerina Spasovska: Data collection, Supervision
Goran Rangelov: Data collection
Marija Cvetanovska: Data collection, Supervision
Fadil Cana: Data collection
Verica Simin: Data analysis, Formal analysis
Ivana Bogdan: Data analysis, Formal analysis
Dragana Mijatović: Data analysis, Formal analysis
Aleksandar Cvetkovikj: Data collection, Data analysis, Formal analysis, Writing and editing
Igor Djadjovski: Data collection, Data analysis, Formal analysis, Writing and editing
Iva Christova: Writing – review & editing
Eleftherios Meletis: Data analysis, Formal analysis, Writing and editing
Polychronis Kostoulas: Writing – review & editing
Brigitta Zana: Data analysis, Visualization, Formal analysis, Writing and editing
Zsófia Lanszki: Data analysis, Visualization, Formal analysis, Writing and editing
Tamás Görföl: Data analysis, Visualization, Formal analysis, Writing and editing
Zsófia Tauber: Data analysis, Visualization, Formal analysis, Writing and editing
Gabor Kemenesi: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Supervision