Dabie bandavirus

Dabie bandavirus
Virus classification Edit this classification
(unranked): Virus
Realm: Riboviria
Kingdom: Orthornavirae
Phylum: Negarnaviricota
Class: Ellioviricetes
Order: Bunyavirales
Family: Phenuiviridae
Genus: Bandavirus
Species:
Dabie bandavirus
Synonyms[1]
  • SFTS virus
  • SFTS phlebovirus
  • Dabie mountain virus
  • SFTS bunyavirus
  • Huaiyangshan banyangvirus

Dabie bandavirus, also called SFTS virus, is a tick-borne virus in the genus Bandavirus in the family Phenuiviridae, order Bunyavirales.[2] The clinical condition it caused is known as severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS).[2] SFTS is an emerging infectious disease that was first described in northeast and central China 2009 and now has also been discovered in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan in 2015. SFTS has a fatality rate of 12% and as high as over 30% in some areas. The major clinical symptoms of SFTS are fever, vomiting, diarrhea, multiple organ failure, thrombocytopenia (low platelet count), leukopenia (low white blood cell count) and elevated liver enzyme levels. Another outbreak occurred in East China in the early half of 2020.

  1. ^ "ICTV Taxonomy history: Dabie bandavirus". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b Yu XJ, Liang MF, Zhang SY, Liu Y, Li JD, Sun YL, et al. (April 2011). "Fever with thrombocytopenia associated with a novel bunyavirus in China". N. Engl. J. Med. 364 (16): 1523–32. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1010095. PMC 3113718. PMID 21410387.