The First Identification and Retrospective Study of Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Japan

Takahashi, Toru; Maeda, Ken; Suzuki, Tadaki; Ishido, Aki; Shigeoka, Toru; Tominaga, Takayuki; Kamei, Toshiaki; Honda, Masahiro; Ninomiya, Daisuke; Sakai, Takenori; Senba, Takanori; Kaneyuki, Shozo; Sakaguchi, Shota; Satoh, Akira; Hosokawa, Takanori; Kawabe, Yojiro; Kurihara, Shintaro; Izumikawa, Koichi; Kohno, Shigeru; Azuma, Taichi; Suemori, Koichiro; Yasukawa, Masaki; Mizutani, Tetsuya; Omatsu, Tsutomu; Katayama, Yukie; Miyahara, Masaharu; Ijuin, Masahito; Doi, Kazuko; Okuda, Masaru; Umeki, Kazunori; Saito, Tomoya; Fukushima, Kazuko; Nakajima, Kensuke; Yoshikawa, Tomoki; Tani, Hideki; Fukushi, Shuetsu; Fukuma, Aiko; Ogata, Momoko; Shimojima, Masayuki; Nakajima, Noriko; Nagata, Noriyo; Katano, Harutaka; Fukumoto, Hitomi; Sato, Yuko; Hasegawa, Hideki; Yamagishi, Takuya; Oishi, Kazunori; Kurane, Ichiro; Morikawa, Shigeru; Saijo, Masayuki

doi:10.1093/infdis/jit603

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The First Identification and Retrospective Study of Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Japan

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases • Nov 14, 2013

Authors:

Toru Takahashi

Ken Maeda

Tadaki Suzuki

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is caused by SFTS virus (SFTSV), a novel bunyavirus reported to be endemic in central and northeastern China. This article describes the first identified patient with SFTS and a retrospective study on SFTS in Japan. METHODS: Virologic an...

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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome

Phlebovirus

Retrospective cohort study

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