Pathological Characteristics of a Patient with Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS) Infected with SFTS Virus through a Sick Cat’s Bite

• Published in: Viruses Vol. 13; no. 2; p. 204
• Main Authors: Tsuru, Masatoshi, Suzuki, Tadaki, Murakami, Tomoyuki, Matsui, Kumiko, Maeda, Yuuji, Yoshikawa, Tomoki, Kurosu, Takeshi, Shimojima, Masayuki, Shimada, Tomome, Hasegawa, Hideki, Maeda, Ken, Morikawa, Shigeru, Saijo, Masayuki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 29.01.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Animal bites; Animals; anorexia; Antibodies; antigens; Appetite loss; Autopsy; Bites and Stings - complications; Bites and Stings - virology; Blood; cat; Cats; Cause of Death; companion animals; death; Differential diagnosis; Fatalities; Female; Fever; Genomes; Hepatitis; Huaiyangshan banyangvirus; Humans; Immunoglobulins; immunohistochemistry; Infections; Japan; Laboratories; Lymph nodes; Lymphadenitis; Medical records; Middle Aged; necropsy; pathology; patients; Phlebovirus - isolation & purification; Retrospective Studies; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome - diagnosis; Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome - etiology; Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome - pathology; Skin diseases; Skin lesions; Thrombocytopenia; ticks; Tomography; viral hemorrhagic fever; Vomiting; women; United States > US; Japan; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; viral hemorrhagic fever; pathology; companion animals; cat

A woman in her fifties showed symptoms of fever, loss of appetite, vomiting, and general fatigue 2 days after she was bitten by a sick cat, which had later died, in Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan, in June 2016. She subsequently died of multiorgan failure, and an autopsy was performed to determi...