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Using principal component analysis and cox regression, we identified independent risk factors for mortality and constructed the multi-biomarker score model (1 point was assigned when age \u226560 years, AST\/ALT ratio \u22652.23, BUN \u22655.6 mmol\/L, ALP \u2265 68 U\/L, or ALB &amp;lt;33.3 g\/L).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Of the 301 patients with SFTS, 57 (18.9%) experienced fatal outcomes during hospitalization. The risk of mortality escalated with each additional point on the multi-biomarker score, with a HR of 2.04 (95% CI, 1.60\u20132.61). Patients were stratified into low (0\u20131), intermediate (2\u20133), and high (4\u20135) risk groups based on their multi-biomarker scores. Notably, those in the high-risk category were at an over eightfold increased risk of mortality (HR, 8.59; 95% CI, 2.63\u201328.05). High scores (4\u20135) were also predictive of adverse outcomes, including secondary bacterial infection, meningitis, ICU admission, heart failure, respiratory failure, and renal failure. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis for the multi-biomarker score revealed an AUC of 0.769 (95% CI, 0.632\u20130.787), suggesting a cutoff value above 3 as the threshold for optimal discrimination.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>SFTS patients with more than three of the following criteria\u2014age \u226560 years, AST\/ALT ratio \u22652.23, BUN \u22655.6 mmol\/L, ALP \u226568 U\/L, or ALB &amp;lt;33.3 g\/L\u2014show a significantly elevated mortality risk.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2025.1681470","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,17]],"date-time":"2025-11-17T06:27:50Z","timestamp":1763360870000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Multi-biomarker score model for predicting fatal outcomes in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome: a multicenter cohort study"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Mengsha","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yingying","family":"Yuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Ju","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Rongrong","family":"Qu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Siheng","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Airong","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zumo","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lina","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Piao","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yejin","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lianqing","family":"Lou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shibo","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Ye","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shigui","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dong","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1878","DOI":"10.3201\/eid2608.200135","article-title":"Genotypic heterogeneity of orientia tsutsugamushi in scrub typhus patients and thrombocytopenia syndrome co-infection, Myanmar","volume":"26","author":"Aye Marlar","year":"2020","journal-title":"Emerg. 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