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Xiaoyan Tang1, Weili Wu, Haifeng Wang, Yanhua Du, Licheng Liu, Kai Kang, Xueyong Huang, Hong Ma, Feng Mu, Shiqiang Zhang, Guohua Zhao, Ning Cui, Bao-Ping Zhu, Aiguo You, Haomin Chen, Guohua Liu, Weijun Chen, Bianli Xu.
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We investigated an outbreak of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) that occurred during May and June 2010, to identify the mode of transmission. Contact with the index patient's blood was significantly associated with development of SFTS (P = .01, by the χ(2) test for linear trend); the frequency of contact with the index patient's blood increased the risk of SFTS in a dose-response manner (P = .03, by the χ(2) test for linear trend). We concluded that human-to-human transmission caused this cluster of cases.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23225899 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis748
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Infect Dis ISSN: 0022-1899 Impact factor: 5.226