Age Is a Critical Risk Factor for Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ding, Shujun ^a,b   Niu, Guoyu ^c,d   Xu, Xuehua ^e   Li, Jinping ^e   Zhang, Xiaomei ^b   Yin, Haiying ^e   Zhang, Naijie ^e   Jiang, Xiaolin ^b   Wang, Shiwen ^c   Liang, Mifang ^c   Wang, Xianjun ^b   Yu, Xue Jie ^a,f  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Province CDC   (China)

^c MOH   (China)

^d Tianjin International Travel Health Care Center   (China)

^e Laizhou City Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^f University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BUNYAVIRIDAE; BUNYAVIRUS INFECTION; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SEVERE FEVER WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME; SEVERE FEVER WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOVIRUS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921588364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111736     Document Type: Article

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