Epidemiological and Clinical Features of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in Japan, 2013–2014

• Hirofumi Kato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hirofumi Kato, Takuya Yamagishi

  Affiliations Feild Epidemiology Training Program (FETP), National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Division of Global Infectious Diseases, Department of Infection and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takuya Yamagishi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hirofumi Kato, Takuya Yamagishi

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tomoe Shimada,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tamano Matsui,

  Affiliation Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masayuki Shimojima,

  Affiliation Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masayuki Saijo,

  Affiliation Department of Virology I, National Institute of Infectious diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kazunori Oishi ,

  * E-mail: oishik@niid.go.jp

  Affiliations Division of Global Infectious Diseases, Department of Infection and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• SFTS epidemiological research group-Japan

  ¶Membership of the SFTS epidemiological research group-Japan is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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