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Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) confirmed a critical case of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV)

  • Tong Zhu ORCID logo , Qing-Qing Cai , Jiao Yu and Xue-Song Liang EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Xue-Song Liang, PhD, Department of Infectious Disease, Shanghai Changhai hospital, Navi Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai, 200433, P.R. China, Phone: 086-21-31161902, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We greatly appreciate the medical support from Dr. Li Chen (Hematology Department), Dr. Tao Wu (Neurology Department), and Dr. Xiaobin Mei (Nephrology Department). We greatly appreciate the technological support of Vision Medicals Co., Ltd (Guangzhou).

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: TZ prepared the first draft of this manuscript. JY collected the clinical information of the patient. QQC carried out the data analysis. XSL provided intellectual advice and critically revised the final manuscript. All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report.

  5. Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with all relevant national regulations, institutional policies and is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013), and has been approved by the authors’ Institutional Review Board.

  6. Data availability statement: The obtained sequencing data were submitted to the Sequence Read Archive of the National Center for Biotechnology In formation (NCBI) with the accession number SRR14663545, SRR14663546. The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or] its Supplementary Materials.

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Supplementary Material

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2021-0791).


Received: 2021-07-13
Accepted: 2021-09-16
Published Online: 2021-10-22
Published in Print: 2022-01-27

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