Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome, South Korea, 2012
- Kye-Hyung Kim
- Jongyoun Yi
- Gayeon Kim
- Su Jin Choi
- Kang Il Jun
- Nak-Hyun Kim
- Pyoeng Gyun Choe
- Nam-Joong Kim
- Jong-Koo Lee
- Myoung-don Oh
Publication date
November 2013
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
We report a retrospectively identified fatal case of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) in South Korea from 2012. SFTS virus was isolated from the stored blood of the patient. Phylogenetic analysis revealed this isolate was closely related to SFTS virus strains from China and Japan
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