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Volume 22, Number 11—November 2016
Dispatch

Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Complicated by Co-infection with Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae, China

Qing-Bin Lu1, Hao Li1, Pan-He Zhang1, Ning Cui, Zhen-Dong Yang, Ya-Di Fan, Xiao-Ming Cui, Jian-Gong Hu, Chen-Tao Guo, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Li-Qun FangComments to Author , and Wu-Chun Cao
Author affiliations: Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China (Q.-B. Lu); State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing (H. Li, P.-H. Zhang, Y.-D. Fan, X.-M. Cui, J.-G. Hu, C.-T. Guo, X.-A. Zhang, W. Liu, W.-C. Cao); 154 Hospital of People's Liberation Army, Xinyang, China (N. Cui, Z.-D. Yang)

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Table

Laboratory test results for patients with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome with and without co-infection with spotted fever group rickettsiae

Coagulation parameters, median (interquartile range)
Prothrombin time, s 11.5 (10.4–12.3) 10.9 (10.2–11.6) 0.017
Thrombin time, s 20.6 (17.4–22.7) 19.7 (17.6–22.4) 0.318
Activated partial thromboplastin time, s 45.5 (40.5–58.5) 46.2 (38.8–56.6) 0.797
Fibrinogen, g/L 2.8 (2.2–3.2) 2.7 (2.3–3.2) 0.775
International normalized ratio 1.0 (0.9–1.1) 1.0 (0.9–1.0) 0.136
Prothrombin time activity, % 84.0 (76.2–92.3) 87.7 (79.7–98.1) 0.124
D-dimer, ng/mL 1,014 (356–1,432) 647 (381–1,373) 0.603

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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