Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea

We report 17 patients with human granulocytic anaplasmosis between January 2015 and September 2018 at two tertiary university hospitals in Korea. Monthly incidence peaked in May and June. Among these patients, we identified three who were co-infected with scrub typhus, and one patient with hemorrhag...

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Autores principales: Heo, Dae-Hyuk, Hwang, Joo-Hee, Choi, Seung Hee, Jeon, Mir, Lee, Ju-Hyung, Lee, Jae-Hoon, Hwang, Seon-Do, Lee, Kyeong-Ah, Lee, Seung-Hun, Lee, Chang-Seop
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Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2019
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6427050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30914905
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e87
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author Heo, Dae-Hyuk
Hwang, Joo-Hee
Choi, Seung Hee
Jeon, Mir
Lee, Ju-Hyung
Lee, Jae-Hoon
Hwang, Seon-Do
Lee, Kyeong-Ah
Lee, Seung-Hun
Lee, Chang-Seop
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description We report 17 patients with human granulocytic anaplasmosis between January 2015 and September 2018 at two tertiary university hospitals in Korea. Monthly incidence peaked in May and June. Among these patients, we identified three who were co-infected with scrub typhus, and one patient with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-64270502019-03-27 Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea Heo, Dae-Hyuk Hwang, Joo-Hee Choi, Seung Hee Jeon, Mir Lee, Ju-Hyung Lee, Jae-Hoon Hwang, Seon-Do Lee, Kyeong-Ah Lee, Seung-Hun Lee, Chang-Seop J Korean Med Sci Brief Communication We report 17 patients with human granulocytic anaplasmosis between January 2015 and September 2018 at two tertiary university hospitals in Korea. Monthly incidence peaked in May and June. Among these patients, we identified three who were co-infected with scrub typhus, and one patient with hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2019-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6427050/ /pubmed/30914905 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e87 Text en © 2019 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communication
Heo, Dae-Hyuk
Hwang, Joo-Hee
Choi, Seung Hee
Jeon, Mir
Lee, Ju-Hyung
Lee, Jae-Hoon
Hwang, Seon-Do
Lee, Kyeong-Ah
Lee, Seung-Hun
Lee, Chang-Seop
Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea
title Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea
title_full Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea
title_fullStr Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea
title_full_unstemmed Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea
title_short Recent Increase of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis and Co-Infection with Scrub Typhus or Korean Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome in Korea
title_sort recent increase of human granulocytic anaplasmosis and co-infection with scrub typhus or korean hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in korea
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6427050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30914905
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e87
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