Epidemiological characteristics of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome in Zhejiang Province, China

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 180-185

  Sun, Jimin ^a   Chai, Chengliang ^a   Lv, Huakun ^a   Lin, Junfen ^a   Wang, Chengwei ^b   Chen, Enfu ^a   Zhang, Yanjun ^a   Chen, Zhiping ^a   Liu, Shelan ^a   Gong, Zhenyu ^a   Jiang, Jianmin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG PROVINCIAL CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Daishan Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical characteristics; Epidemiological characteristic; Family cluster; Fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BUNYAVIRUS INFECTION; CHILL; CHINA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PETECHIA; PRODROMAL SYMPTOM; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEVERE FEVER WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME; TICK BITE; VOMITING; ANIMAL; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CHINA; FEMALE; FEVER; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84903826275     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.02.022     Document Type: Article

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