Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, Japan, 2013–2017

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 692 - 699
• Main Authors: Kobayashi, Yusuke, Kato, Hirofumi, Yamagishi, Takuya, Shimada, Tomoe, Matsui, Tamano, Yoshikawa, Tomoki, Kurosu, Takeshi, Shimojima, Masayuki, Morikawa, Shigeru, Hasegawa, Hideki, Saijo, Masayuki, Oishi, Kazunori
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.04.2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Animals; Beef cattle; Bites (Injuries); Bites and stings; companion animal; Diseases; Epidemiology; Fever; Genomes; Hospitals; Illnesses; Infectious diseases; Laboratories; Medical prognosis; Medical research; Medicine, Experimental; Pets; Phenuiviridae; Physicians; Questionnaires; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus; Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, Japan, 2013–2017; SFTS; Surveillance; Surveys; Thrombocytopenia; Time; viruses; South Korea; Japan; China; viruses; Phenuiviridae; Japan; zoonoses; companion animal; Huaiyangshan banyangvirus; epidemiology; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; vector-borne infections; SFTS; SFTSV; tickborne diseases; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus

We conducted an epidemiologic study of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in Japan during 2013-2017. Of 303 cases reported during that period, 133 (44%) were included in this study. The median time between onset of illness and diagnosis of SFTS shortened, from 11.5 to 3.0 days, but t...