Clinical characteristics and risk factors for severe scrub typhus in pediatric and elderly patients

• Xiu-Gang Guan ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These first authors contributed equally to this article.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Yue-Hong Wei ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  ¶‡ These first authors contributed equally to this article.

  Affiliation Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China

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• Bao-Gui Jiang ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ These first authors contributed equally to this article.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Shi-Xia Zhou,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• An-Ran Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China

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• Qing-Bin Lu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Laboratorial Science and Technology, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

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• Zi-Wei Zhou,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Jin-Jin Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Hai-Yang Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Yang Ji,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Yang Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Li-Qun Fang ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fang_lq@163.com (LQF); lihao_1986@126.com (HL); yangzc@gzcdc.org.cn (ZCY); lwbime@163.com (WL)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

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• Hao Li ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fang_lq@163.com (LQF); lihao_1986@126.com (HL); yangzc@gzcdc.org.cn (ZCY); lwbime@163.com (WL)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China

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• Zhi-Cong Yang ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fang_lq@163.com (LQF); lihao_1986@126.com (HL); yangzc@gzcdc.org.cn (ZCY); lwbime@163.com (WL)

  Affiliation Guangzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, China

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• Wei Liu

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fang_lq@163.com (LQF); lihao_1986@126.com (HL); yangzc@gzcdc.org.cn (ZCY); lwbime@163.com (WL)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China, Department of Laboratorial Science and Technology, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-8170

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