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A cluster of cases of human-to-human transmission caused by severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome bunyavirus

Author(s) -

Hongbin Chen,

Ke Hu,

Jinjing Zou,

Jin-xiu Xiao

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.11.006

Subject(s) - severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome , emerging infectious disease , medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , epidemiology , disease , cluster (spacecraft) , tick , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , immunology , virus , computer science , electrical engineering , programming language , engineering

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease in six epidemic provinces of China and was identified to be caused by a novel bunyavirus in 2009. It is progressive in nature and potentially fatal. SFTS usually occurs as sporadic cases and is considered a tick-transmitted disease. Here we present a group of three patients with proven SFTS and one with probable SFTS, for whom the epidemiological data show person-to-person transmission characteristics. The index patient and two secondary patients died. None reported a tick bite.

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