Two confirmed cases of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome with pneumonia: implication for a family cluster in East China

Abstract Background Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) was first reported in China in 2011. Human-to-human transmission of the virus occurred occasionally in family clusters. However, pneumonia as an onset syndrome was not common in most SFTS cases. Our aim is to report a family clus...

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Published in:	BMC Infectious Diseases
Main Authors:	Yiyi Zhu, Huanyu Wu, Jie Gao, Xin Zhou, Renyi Zhu, Chunzhe Zhang, Hongling Bai, Abu S. Abdullah, Hao Pan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2017-08-01
Subjects:	Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome New bunyavirus Human-to-human transmission Family cluster
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-017-2645-9

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