The First Nationwide Surveillance of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Ruminants and Wildlife in Taiwan

• Published in: Viruses Vol. 15; no. 2; p. 441
• Main Authors: Kuan, Chih-Ying, Lin, Tsai-Lu, Ou, Shan-Chia, Chuang, Shih-Te, Chan, Jacky Peng-Wen, Maeda, Ken, Mizutani, Tetsuya, Wu, Ming-Pin, Lee, Fan, Chan, Fang-Tse, Chang, Chao-Chin, Liang, Rui-Ling, Yang, Sue-Fung, Liu, Tsung-Ching, Tu, Wu-Chun, Tzeng, Hau-You, Lee, Chia-Jung, Lin, Chuen-Fu, Lee, Hsu-Hsun, Wu, Jhih-Hua, Lo, Hsiao-Chien, Tseng, Kuan-Chieh, Hsu, Wei-Li, Chou, Chi-Chung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 05.02.2023; MDPI
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Wild; Arachnids; Automation; Beef; Beef cattle; Cattle; Causes of; China; Dairy cattle; dairy cows; Domestic animals; Farms; Fatalities; Female; Fever; Geographical distribution; Goats; Health aspects; Herbivores; Huaiyangshan banyangvirus; Humans; Infectious diseases; Japan; Korean Peninsula; Maximum likelihood method; monitoring; mortality; Pakistan; Phylogenetics; Polymerase chain reaction; reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Reverse transcription; Rhipicephalus microplus; Ribonucleic acid; Risk factors; RNA; RNA virus infections; RNA, Viral - genetics; ruminant; Ruminants; Serology; Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome; Sheep; Statistics; Taiwan; Taiwan - epidemiology; Thrombocytopenia; Tick-borne diseases; ticks; Vietnam; Viruses; Wildlife; Zoonoses; Pakistan; Taiwan; South Korea; Asia; United States > US; China; Japan; Vietnam; Korean Peninsula; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; ruminant; Taiwan; wildlife

Since the first discovery of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) in China in 2009, SFTSV has rapidly spread through other Asian countries, including Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Pakistan, in chronological order. Taiwan reported its first discovery of SFTSV in sheep and humans in 2...