Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome: A newly discovered emerging infectious disease

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 614-620

  Li, D X ^a  

^a Chinese CDC   (China)

Author keywords

Clinical; Epidemiology; SFTS; SFTS virus; Virology

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHLEBOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEVERE FEVER WITH THROMBOCYTOPENIA SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD VECTOR; ASIA; BLOOD; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE MODEL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; TICK; TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BUNYAVIRIDAE; IXODIDA; MUS; PHLEBOVIRUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; ASIA; BUNYAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; PHLEBOVIRUS; RNA, VIRAL; TICKS;

EID: 84930819789     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.03.001     Document Type: Review

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