Correlation between thrombocytopenia and host response in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome.

• Main Authors: Xiao-Kun Li (Author), Ke Dai (Author), Zhen-Dong Yang (Author), Chun Yuan (Author), Ning Cui (Author), Shao-Fei Zhang (Author), Yuan-Yuan Hu (Author), Zhi-Bo Wang (Author), Dong Miao (Author), Pan-He Zhang (Author), Hao Li (Author), Xiao-Ai Zhang (Author), Yan-Qin Huang (Author), Wei-Wei Chen (Author), Jiu-Song Zhang (Author), Qing-Bin Lu (Author), Wei Liu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease caused by a novel bunyavirus, SFTS virus (SFTSV), with fatal outcome developed in approximately 17% of the cases. Thrombocytopenia is a hallmark feature of SFTS, and associated with a higher risk of fatal outcome, h...