Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus Outside China?

Overview

Journal Case Rep Infect Dis

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2012 May 9

PMID 22567462

Citations 46

Authors

Srdjan Denic

Joumana Janbeih

Suresh Nair

Walter Conca

Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq

Suhail Al-Salam

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Abstract

We report a 57-year-old man with acute thrombocytopenia, leucopenia, and multiorgan dysfunction. Patient was from North Korea and was temporarily working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when he fell ill in March 2009. At the same time and unknown to us, many patients with similar clinical manifestations were admitted to hospitals in China. The Chinese cases-identified between March and July 2009-were recently reported to have been infected with a tick-born strain of bunyavirus, a new disease. The virus infection was documented in patients from central China and the region that shares the border with North Korea. The clinical manifestations, the time of disease onset, and geographical link of the patient with the region in which the disease is endemic suggest that the patient had SFTS bunyavirus infection.

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