Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2012)

Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus, Shandong Province, China

  • Li Zhao,
  • Shenyong Zhai,
  • Hongling Wen,
  • Feng Cui,
  • Yuanyuan Chi,
  • Ling Wang,
  • Fuzhong Xue,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Zhiyu Wang,
  • Shoufeng Zhang,
  • Yanyan Song,
  • Jun Du,
  • Xue-jie Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1806.111345
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 6
pp. 963 – 965

Abstract

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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, which results in severe illness and has a high case-fatality rate, is caused by a novel bunyavirus, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus. We found that samples from 2/237 (0.8%) healthy persons and 111/134 (83%) goats in Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, China, were seropositive for this virus.

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