Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in ticks collected from humans, South Korea, 2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1358-1361

  Yun, Seok Min ^a   Lee, Wook Gyo ^a   Ryou, Jungsang ^a   Yang, Sung Chan ^a   Park, Sun Whan ^a   Roh, Jong Yeol ^a   Lee, Ye Ji ^a   Park, Chan ^a   Han, Myung Guk ^a  

^a Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA TESTUDINARIUM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; IXODES; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHLEBOVIRUS INFECTION; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN DENATURATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH KOREA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME VIRUS; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE VECTOR; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; TICK; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHLEBOTOMUS FEVER; PHLEBOVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TICKS;

EID: 84905264433     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2008.131857     Document Type: Article

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