A novel bunyavirus causing fever and thrombocytopenia: More questions than answers

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 669-670

  Kok, Kin Hang ^a   Jin, Dong Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BUNYAVIRUS; BUNYAVIRUS INFECTION; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EHRLICHIA MURIS; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEVERE FEBRILE AND THROMBOCYTOPENIC SYNDROME; SHORT SURVEY; STEROID THERAPY; SUMMER; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; SYNDROME; VIROLOGY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; FEVER; HUMANS; ORTHOBUNYAVIRUS; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84858411578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09296646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2011.09.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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