A case of neutrophil blue-green inclusions in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus infection

International Journal of Laboratory HematologyEarly View LETTER TO THE EDITOR A case of neutrophil blue–green inclusions in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus infection Wei Jiang, Wei Jiang Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, People's Republic of ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorMing Huang, Ming Huang Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorJiao-Hua Chen, Jiao-Hua Chen Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hubei Yangxin County People's Hospital, Huangshi, Hubei, People's Republic of ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorYang Fei, Corresponding Author Yang Fei [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-4976-2500 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China Correspondence Yang Fei and Chi Zhang, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095 Jiefang Ave, Wuhan 430030, China. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorChi Zhang, Corresponding Author Chi Zhang [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-2468-7068 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China Correspondence Yang Fei and Chi Zhang, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095 Jiefang Ave, Wuhan 430030, China. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Wei Jiang, Wei Jiang Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, People's Republic of ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorMing Huang, Ming Huang Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorJiao-Hua Chen, Jiao-Hua Chen Department of Clinical Laboratory, Hubei Yangxin County People's Hospital, Huangshi, Hubei, People's Republic of ChinaSearch for more papers by this authorYang Fei, Corresponding Author Yang Fei [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-4976-2500 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China Correspondence Yang Fei and Chi Zhang, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095 Jiefang Ave, Wuhan 430030, China. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorChi Zhang, Corresponding Author Chi Zhang [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-2468-7068 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China Correspondence Yang Fei and Chi Zhang, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1095 Jiefang Ave, Wuhan 430030, China. Email: [email protected]; [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 12 March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.14056 Wei Jiang and Ming Huang are joint first authors and contributed equally to this work. 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