A new emerging pandemic of severe fever with ... | Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus targets B cells in lethal human infections

Vertebrates are the host of this disease and tick functions as a vector, where the virus ... In china, during 2013 to 2016, total 7419 cases of human have been ... First case of SFTS in North Korea was reported in 2009 [28] and fatal case ... Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus targets B cells in ...AdvertisementSearchSpringerLinkSearchAnewemergingpandemicofseverefeverwiththrombocytopeniasyndrome(SFTS)DownloadPDFDownloadPDFAbstractTheaimofthisstudyistomakeawareeveryoneofthedeadliestdiseasesnamedseverefeverwiththrombocytopeniasyndrome(SFTS).Ithasbecometheworldwidepandemicinrecentfewyears.Itisakindofhaemorrhagicfever,causedbySFTSvirus(SFTSV),anovelphlebovirusoffamilyBunyaviridae.Thissyndromeisalsoatick-bornezoonosisthatmeansthevirustransmittedfromtickbite(havingvirus)intohumanbody,i.e.infectionspreadfromanimalstohumansandalsotransmittedfromhumantohuman.EpidemiologicaldataofSFTSwascollectedtoknowthenature/symptomsofSFTSV.FirstcaseofthisdiseasehasbeenreportedinChina,followedbyJapan,Southkorea,Taiwan,USAandmanyothercountries.Vertebratesarethehostofthisdiseaseandtickfunctionsasavector,wheretheviruscanundergobriskchangesusinggenemutation,homologousrecombinationandreassortments.Themajorsymptomsofhemorrhagicfeverarefever,thrombocytopenia,leucopeniaandgastrointestinalabnormalities.Sometimesinveryseverecases,fullbodyorganfailuremayalsotakeplaceandaveragedeathrateinhumansisnearly10 %.OldagedpeoplesaremorepronetoSFTSVinfection.ApartfromthefactofincreasingSFTSVrelatedhealthproblemstohumans,thepathogenesisofSFTSvirusinhumanisnotentirelyunderstoodandnotreatmenttothisvirusisstillavailable.Thesimplestwaytoprotectourselffromthisinfectionistorefrainfromtickbite.Therefore,thisdiseasehasevolvedtoproduceserioushealthissuestohumansinvariouscountriesofworldincludingchina.Thisreviewdiscussingaboutcausativeagent,epidemiology,pathogenesis,diagnosisandtreatmentofSFTS.InordertocontrolthespreadofSFTSV,wehavetostoptheviraltransmissionortoprotecttheeasilyvulnerablepopulationfromtickbi


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