Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Antigen Detection Using Monoclonal Antibodies to the Nucleocapsid Protein.

• Main Authors: Aiko Fukuma (Author), Shuetsu Fukushi (Author), Tomoki Yoshikawa (Author), Hideki Tani (Author), Satoshi Taniguchi (Author), Takeshi Kurosu (Author), Kazutaka Egawa (Author), Yuto Suda (Author), Harpal Singh (Author), Taro Nomachi (Author), Mutsuyo Gokuden (Author), Katsuyuki Ando (Author), Kouji Kida (Author), Miki Kan (Author), Nobuyuki Kato (Author), Akira Yoshikawa (Author), Hiroaki Kitamoto (Author), Yuko Sato (Author), Tadaki Suzuki (Author), Hideki Hasegawa (Author), Shigeru Morikawa (Author), Masayuki Shimojima (Author), Masayuki Saijo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a tick-borne infectious disease with a high case fatality rate, and is caused by the SFTS virus (SFTSV). SFTS is endemic to China, South Korea, and Japan. The viral RNA level in sera of patients with SFTS is known to be strongly associated with o...