Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection, South Korea, 2010

Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Nov;24(11):2103-2105. doi: 10.3201/eid2411.170756.

Abstract

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) was reported in China in 2009 and in South Korea in 2012. We found retrospective evidence of SFTS virus infection in South Korea in 2010, suggesting that infections in South Korea occurred before previously reported and were more concurrent with those in China.

Keywords: SFTSV; South Korea; severe fever with thrombocytopenia virus; thrombocytopenia; viruses.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bunyaviridae Infections / epidemiology*
  • Bunyaviridae Infections / virology
  • Humans
  • Phlebovirus / genetics
  • Phlebovirus / isolation & purification*
  • Phylogeny
  • Republic of Korea / epidemiology
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Thrombocytopenia / epidemiology*
  • Thrombocytopenia / virology

Supplementary concepts

  • SFTS phlebovirus