Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS)

  • Dabie bandavirus

  • Previously phlebovirus group,

  • Tick

  • POssible hosts: goats, cattle, dogs, chickens, pigs, other small animals

Clinical

  • Fever

  • Low platelets

  • Mortality rate:

Differential diagnosis

  • Rickettsia diseases

Diagnosis

  • RT-PCR (see Izumikawa slides)

References

  • Fever with thrombocytopenia associated with a Novel Bunyavirus in China. NEJM, 2011