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Risk factors for person-to-person transmission of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2020

Chao Ye  and
Rui Qi Open the ORCID record for Rui Qi [Opens in a new window]
Chao Ye
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Record Statistics, Shandong Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, Jinan, Shandong Province, China
Rui Qi*
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China
*
Author for correspondence: Rui Qi, E-mail: qiruigh@163.com
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Abstract

Objective:

To determine the risk factors for person-to-person transmission of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS).

Design:

Studies reporting the person-to-person transmission or cluster infection of SFTS were identified and included for risk-factor analyses.

Methods:

Risk factors were investigated by analyzing characteristics of index patients who caused cluster infection and correlation between exposure history and secondary infection.

Results:

Analyses of 23 clusters of SFTS infections indicated that all index patients died and that they all had a symptom of bleeding 24 hours before death. Of 89 secondary cases, 82% had been exposed to the index patients’ blood. The blood-contact–specific secondary attack rate was 62.4% (73 of 117). The risk relative value was 25 (95% CI, 15–42); thus, the probability of a person getting infected was 25 times more likely when they had contacted blood than when they had not.

Conclusion:

Exposure to blood of SFTS patients is the highest risk factor for person-to-person infection with SFTSV. SFTS patients’ families and healthcare workers should be educated to handle SFTS patients properly and safely to prevent the spread of SFTSV.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 42 , Issue 5 , May 2021 , pp. 582 - 585
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