Characteristics and factors associated with death among patients hospitalized for severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, South Korea, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1704-1710

  Shin, Jaeseung ^a   Kwon, Donghyok ^a   Youn, Seung Ki ^a   Park, Ji Hyuk ^a,b  

^a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

^b Dongguk University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RIBAVIRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEVERE FEVER WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME; SOUTH KOREA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ANIMAL; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PROCEDURES; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 84942103415     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2110.141928     Document Type: Article

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