Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China?
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 manifestat...
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| author | Srdjan Denic Joumana Janbeih Suresh Nair Walter Conca Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq Suhail Al-Salam |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-56daaac044444db69540ff92d09994802025-02-03T01:30:12ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332011-01-01201110.1155/2011/204056204056Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China?Srdjan Denic0Joumana Janbeih1Suresh Nair2Walter Conca3Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq4Suhail Al-Salam5Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, P.O. Box 17666, Al Ain, UAEDepartment of Medicine, P.O. Box 1006, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAEDepartment of Medicine, P.O. Box 1006, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAEDepartment of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, P.O. Box 17666, Al Ain, UAEDepartment of Pathology, Tawam Hospital, P.O. Box 15258, Al Ain, UAEDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, UAEWe 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/204056 |
| spellingShingle | Srdjan Denic Joumana Janbeih Suresh Nair Walter Conca Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq Suhail Al-Salam Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? |
| title_full | Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? |
| title_fullStr | Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? |
| title_short | Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? |
| title_sort | acute thrombocytopenia leucopenia and multiorgan dysfunction the first case of sfts bunyavirus outside china |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/204056 |
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