Human Case of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection, Taiwan, 2019

We report on a 70-year-old man with fever, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, vomiting, malaise, dyspnea, and consciousness disturbance who was infected with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in northern Taiwan, 2019. This autochthonous case was confirmed by reverse transcription PCR, vir...

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Autores principales: Peng, Shih-Huan, Yang, Su-Lin, Tang, Shih-En, Wang, Tzy-Chen, Hsu, Tung-Chien, Su, Chien-Ling, Chen, Meng-Yu, Shimojima, Masayuki, Yoshikawa, Tomoki, Shu, Pei-Yun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
Materias:
Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7323535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32568054
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2607.200104
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Sumario:We report on a 70-year-old man with fever, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, vomiting, malaise, dyspnea, and consciousness disturbance who was infected with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in northern Taiwan, 2019. This autochthonous case was confirmed by reverse transcription PCR, virus isolation, and genomic sequencing.

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