Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome can masquerade as hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.

• Main Authors: Rui Qi (Author), Xiang-Rong Qin (Author), Ling Wang (Author), Hui-Ju Han (Author), Feng Cui (Author), Hao Yu (Author), Jian-Wei Liu (Author), Xue-Jie Yu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging viral hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate and high frequency of person-to-person transmission and is caused by SFTSV, a tick-borne Phlebovirus. Because SFTS has similar clinical manifestations and epidemic character...