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- Title
Accuracy of Diagnosis of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis in China.
- Authors
Wormser, Gary P.
- Abstract
In 2008, human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) was reported from China. However, the clinical and laboratory findings, including reports of nosocomial transmission, were inconsistent with those reported for HGA in the United States. In 2012, it was demonstrated that the patients described in the 2008 report had all been infected with a newly discovered bunyavirus, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus, which causes an illness with the same clinical features described for the patients in the 2008 report. This finding raises the question of HGA misdiagnosis in China and establishes the need for further studies to determine whether HGA occurs there.
- Subjects
CHINA; UNITED States; MEDICAL screening; ANAPLASMA phagocytophilum; CATTLE infections; MEDICAL care; GRANULOCYTES; DIAGNOSIS of ehrlichiosis; RNA virus infections; COMPARATIVE studies; DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis; DIAGNOSTIC errors; GRAM-negative bacteria; GRAM-negative bacterial diseases; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; RNA viruses; EVALUATION research; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016, Vol 22, Issue 10, p1728
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid2210.160161