Preexisting chronic conditions for fatal outcome among SFTS patients: An observational Cohort Study.

• Main Authors: Shao-Fei Zhang (Author), Zhen-Dong Yang (Author), Mao-Lin Huang (Author), Zhi-Bo Wang (Author), Yuan-Yuan Hu (Author), Dong Miao (Author), Ke Dai (Author), Juan Du (Author), Ning Cui (Author), Chun Yuan (Author), Hao Li (Author), Xiao-Kun Li (Author), Xiao-Ai Zhang (Author), Pan-He Zhang (Author), Xian-Miao Mi (Author), Qing-Bin Lu (Author), Wei Liu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease that is caused by a novel bunyavirus SFTSV. Currently our knowledge of the host-related factors that influence the pathogenesis of disease is inadequate to allow prediction of fatal outcome. Here we conducted a pros...