Clinical features and factors associated with severity and fatality among patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome Bunyavirus infection in Northeast China.

BACKGROUND: In 2009, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) was identified as a novel member of the genus phlebovirus in the Bunyaviridae family in China. The detailed clinical features of cases with SFTSV infection have not been well described, and the risk factors for severity a...

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Main Authors: Baocheng Deng, Bo Zhou, Shujun Zhang, Ying Zhu, Leqiang Han, Yingzhi Geng, Zhenan Jin, Hongbo Liu, Donglei Wang, Yitong Zhao, Ying Wen, Wei Cui, Ying Zhou, Qiuhong Gu, Cuiming Sun, Xu Lu, Wen Wang, Yu Wang, Chengbo Li, Yanli Wang, Wenqing Yao, Pei Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3827460?pdf=render