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Case Reports
. 2013 Nov;19(11):1892-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid1911.130792.

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
Case Reports

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, South Korea, 2012

Kye-Hyung Kim et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013 Nov.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: South Korea; bunyavirus; phlebovirus; severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome; viruses.

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Figure 1
Transmission electron microscopy image of Vero cells infected with severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (arrows). Scale bar indicates 500 nm.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Phylogenetic tree for the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRP) gene sequences of the large segment of an isolate obtained from a patient in South Korea who died of an illness retrospectively identified as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) (black dot) compared with representative SFTS virus strains from China and Japan. The tree was constructed on the basis of the nucleic acid sequences of the RdRP genes by using the neighbor-joining method. Location, year of isolation, and GenBank accession numbers are indicated. Branch length of the tree shows the evolutionary distance. Scale bar indicates 2.0% sequence distance.
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