Human Case of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection, Taiwan, 2019

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 1612 - 1614
• Main Authors: Peng, Shih-Huan, Yang, Su-Lin, Tang, Shih-En, Wang, Tzy-Chen, Hsu, Tung-Chien, Su, Chien-Ling, Chen, Meng-Yu, Shimojima, Masayuki, Yoshikawa, Tomoki, Shu, Pei-Yun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.07.2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: autochthonous case; Blood transfusions; Diabetes; Disease control; Epidemiology; Fever; Genomes; Health aspects; Hospitals; Huaiyangshan banyangvirus; Human Case of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection, Taiwan, 2019; Hypertension; Infection; Infections; Infectious diseases; Medical laboratories; Proteins; Research Letter; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus; Surveillance; Taiwan; Tazobactam; Thrombocytopenia; Tick-borne diseases; Type 2 diabetes; Typhus; Vaccines; Viruses; Vietnam; South Korea; China; Japan; Taiwan; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; clinical findings; viruses; bacteria; co-infection; thrombocytopenia; Taiwan; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; autochthonous; Huaiyangshan banyangvirus; case study; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2607.200104

We report on a 70-year-old man with fever, leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, vomiting, malaise, dyspnea, and consciousness disturbance who was infected with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in northern Taiwan, 2019. This autochthonous case was confirmed by reverse transcription PCR, virus isolation, and genomic sequencing.