Age Is a Critical Risk Factor for Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome

• Shujun Ding,

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China, Department of Viral Infectious Diseases Control and Prevention, Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

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• Guoyu Niu,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, MOH, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, China, Tianjin International Travel Health Care Center, Tianjin, China

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• Xuehua Xu,

  Affiliation Department for communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Laizhou City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Laizhou, Shandong Province, China

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• Jinping Li,

  Affiliation Department for communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Laizhou City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Laizhou, Shandong Province, China

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• Xiaomei Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Viral Infectious Diseases Control and Prevention, Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

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• Haiying Yin,

  Affiliation Department for communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Laizhou City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Laizhou, Shandong Province, China

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• Naijie Zhang,

  Affiliation Department for communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Laizhou City Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Laizhou, Shandong Province, China

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• Xiaolin Jiang,

  Affiliation Department of Viral Infectious Diseases Control and Prevention, Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

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• Shiwen Wang,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, MOH, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, China

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• Mifang Liang,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Medical Virology, MOH, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC, Beijing, China

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• Xianjun Wang ,

  * E-mail: xjwang62@163.com (XW); yuxuejie@sdu.edu.cn (XY)

  Affiliation Department of Viral Infectious Diseases Control and Prevention, Shandong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

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• Xue-jie Yu

  * E-mail: xjwang62@163.com (XW); yuxuejie@sdu.edu.cn (XY)

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America

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