Rickettsia typhi infection in severe fever with thrombocytopenia patients, China

Shao-Fei Zhang; Juan Du; Xian-Miao Mi; Qing-Bin Lu; Jie-Ying Bai; Ning Cui; Zhen-Dong Yang; Zhi-Bo Wang; Xiao-Ai Zhang; Pan-He Zhang; Hao Li; Wei Liu

doi:10.1080/22221751.2019.1599696

Rickettsia typhi infection in severe fever with thrombocytopenia patients, China

Emerg Microbes Infect. 2019;8(1):579-584. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2019.1599696.

Authors

Shao-Fei Zhang¹, Juan Du², Xian-Miao Mi¹, Qing-Bin Lu², Jie-Ying Bai³, Ning Cui⁴, Zhen-Dong Yang⁴, Zhi-Bo Wang¹, Xiao-Ai Zhang¹, Pan-He Zhang¹, Hao Li¹, Wei Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ a State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Vector Borne and Natural Focus Infectious Diseases , Beijing , People's Republic of China.
² b School of Public Health , Peking University , Beijing , People's Republic of China.
³ c Laboratory Animal Center , Academy of Military Medical Sciences , Beijing , People's Republic of China.
⁴ d The 154 Hospital , People's Liberation Army , Xinyang , People's Republic of China.

No abstract available

Keywords: China; serological test; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; vector-borne diseases.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
China / epidemiology
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Phlebotomus Fever / diagnosis
Phlebotomus Fever / epidemiology
Phlebotomus Fever / virology
Phlebovirus / genetics
Phlebovirus / physiology
Retrospective Studies
Rickettsia typhi / physiology*
Thrombocytopenia / complications
Thrombocytopenia / diagnosis
Thrombocytopenia / microbiology*
Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / complications
Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / diagnosis
Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / epidemiology
Typhus, Endemic Flea-Borne / microbiology*

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 81825019, 81472005, 81722041 and 81621005], the China Mega-Project for Infectious Diseases [grant number 2018ZX10713002], the National Key Research and Development Program of China [grant number 2016YFX1201905], and the New Star Plan of Science and Technology of Beijing [grant number Z171100001117089]. The funding agencies had no role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis, interpretation of the data, preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript.