Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a life-threatening infectious disease caused by SFTS virus (SFTSV), a phlebovirus in the order Bunyavirales of -ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Ixodoidea ticks. SFTSV was first isolated in 2009 in China.
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Viral infectious disease
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Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
1D4E Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
H01416 Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
Infections caused by -ssRNA viruses
H01416 Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome