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Novel sub-lineages, recombinants and reassortants of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus.
Ticks and tick-borne diseases - 1 Mar 2017
Lv Qiang, Zhang Hong, Tian Lei, Zhang Ruiling, Zhang Zhenjie, Li Juan, Tong Yigang, Fan Hang, Carr Michael J, Shi Weifeng
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Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus (SFTSV) has been continuously circulating in Eastern Asia in recent years, without the availability of effective vaccines or antiviral drugs, posing a serious threat to public health, particularly in the central-eastern provinces of China. In this study, we isolated and sequenced four new SFTSV strains from Shandong Province identified in 2015. Phylogenetic...
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