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Case report: detection of the identical virus in a patient presenting with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome encephalopathy and the tick that bit her

BACKGROUND: Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging tick-borne disease. Haemophysalis longicornis ticks have been considered the vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV). However, clear data on the transmission of SFTS from ticks to humans are lim...

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Autores principales: Kim, Uh. Jin, Kim, Dong-Min, Kim, Seong Eun, Kang, Seung Ji, Jang, Hee-Chang, Park, Kyung-Hwa, Jung, Sook In
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5905174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29665796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3092-y