High Seroprevalence of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection among the Dog Population in Thailand

• Published in: Viruses Vol. 15; no. 12; p. 2403
• Main Authors: Ishijima, Keita, Phichitraslip, Thanmaporn, Naimon, Nattakarn, Ploypichai, Preeyaporn, Kriebkajon, Benyapa, Chinarak, Torntun, Sridaphan, Jirasin, Kritiyakan, Anamika, Prasertsincharoen, Noppadol, Jittapalapong, Sathaporn, Tangcham, Kanate, Rerkamnuaychoke, Worawut, Kuroda, Yudai, Taira, Masakatsu, Tatemoto, Kango, Park, Eunsil, Virhuez-Mendoza, Milagros, Inoue, Yusuke, Harada, Michiko, Yamamoto, Tsukasa, Nishino, Ayano, Matsuu, Aya, Maeda, Ken
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.12.2023
• Subjects: Antibodies; blood serum; companion animal; Disease control; Diseases; Dogs; ELISA; Fatalities; Fever; genome; Genomes; genotype; Genotypes; Huaiyangshan banyangvirus; humans; Infections; Phylogenetics; Risk factors; RNA virus infections; RT-PCR; Serology; seroprevalence; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; Shelters; Statistics; Thailand; Thrombocytopenia; Tick-borne diseases; Viruses; Zoonoses; zoonosis; Japan; Thailand; China; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; RT-PCR; dogs; companion animal; Thailand; zoonosis; ELISA

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging tick-borne zoonotic disease caused by the SFTS virus (SFTSV). In Thailand, three human cases of SFTS were reported in 2019 and 2020, but there was no report of SFTSV infection in animals. Our study revealed that at least 16.6% of dogs...