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Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, Shandong Province, China, 2011 - Volume 20, Number 1—January 2014 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC

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Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, Shandong Province, China, 2011

Hong-Ling Wen1, Li Zhao1, Shenyong Zhai, Yuanyuan Chi, Feng Cui, Dongxu Wang, Ling Wang, Zhiyu Wang, Qian Wang, Shoufeng Zhang, Yan Liu, Hao Yu, and Xue-Jie YuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Shandong University School of Public Health, Jinan, China (H.-L. Wen. L. Zhao, Y. Chi, D. Wang, Z. Wang, X.-J. Yu)Zibo Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zibo, China (S. Zhai, F. Cui, L. Wang)Yiyuan County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Yiyuan, China (Q. Wang, S. Zhang)University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA (Y. Liu, H. Yu, X.-J. Yu)

Abstract

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease in China. The incidence and clinical and laboratory characteristics of SFTS are not clearly defined. During May 22–October 2, 2011, a total of 24 patients with fever, thrombocytopenia, and leukopenia were clinically diagnosed as having SFTS in Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, China. We conducted laboratory tests for these SFTS patients. SFTS virus (SFTSV) infection was confirmed in 22 patients by using reverse transcription PCR and ELISA by acute-phase and convalescent-phase serum samples. Clinical and laboratory manifestations included fever (100%), gastrointestinal symptoms (91%), myalgia (55%), chills (41%), thrombocytopenia (100%), and leukopenia (95%).
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease that was identified in 2009 in rural areas in China. This disease is caused by SFTS virus (SFTSV), a novel bunyavirus in the family Bunyaviridae, genus Phlebovirus. (1). Fatal cases of infection with SFTSV have been recently reported in Japan and South Korea (2,3).
SFTS is a severe disease and has had a case-fatality rate of 12%–30% in China (1). The major manifestations of SFTS are fever, thrombocytopenia, leukopenia, and increased serum levels of hepatic aminotransferases. SFTSV has been detected in ticks and might be transmitted by them (1,4). Occasionally, the disease can also be transmitted from person to person through contact with infected blood or mucus (59).
The epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of SFTSV infection are not well defined. Approximately 30% of clinically diagnosed cases of SFTS cannot be confirmed by laboratory tests (1,10), and clinicians may confuse this disease with diseases caused by other pathogens. Therefore, to obtain information on clinical and laboratory characteristics of this disease, with a focus on diagnosis, we used acute-phase and convalescent-phase serum samples from 24 patients given a clinical diagnosis of SFTS in Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, China, an area to which SFTSV is endemic (11),

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