About the Authors

Seong Jin Choi

‡ SJC and SWP are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sang-Won Park

‡ SJC and SWP are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Boramae Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

In-Gyu Bae

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Republic of Korea

Sung-Han Kim

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Seong Yeol Ryu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Hyun Ah Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Hee-Chang Jang

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Jian Hur

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Jae-Bum Jun

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Republic of Korea

Younghee Jung

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Republic of Korea

Hyun-Ha Chang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Young Keun Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea

Jongyoun Yi

Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea

Kye-Hyung Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea

Jeong-Hwan Hwang

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, Republic of Korea

Yeon-Sook Kim

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Hye Won Jeong

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

Kyoung-Ho Song

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Wan Beom Park

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Eu Suk Kim

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Myoung-don Oh

mdohmd@snu.ac.kr

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

for Korea SFTS Clinical Network

Members of the Korea SFTS Clinical Network who are not listed in the authorship are provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SWP MdO. Data curation: SJC SWP. Formal analysis: SJC SWP. Funding acquisition: MdO. Investigation: SJC SWP IGB SHK SYR HAK HCJ JH JBJ YJ HHC YKK JY KHK JHH YSK HWJ KHS WBP ESK. Methodology: SWP MdO. Project administration: SWP MdO. Resources: SJC SWP IGB SHK SYR HAK HCJ JH JBJ YJ HHC YKK JY KHK JHH YSK HWJ KHS WBP ESK. Supervision: SWP MdO. Visualization: SJC SWP. Writing – original draft: SJC SWP JY JHH WBP ESK. Writing – review & editing: SJC SWP IGB SHK SYR HAK HCJ JH JBJ YJ HHC YKK JY KHK JHH YSK HWJ KHS WBP ESK MdO.