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Volume 30, Supplement—October 2024
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Articles

Comprehensive Surveillance of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus in Patients with Acute Febrile Illness, Wild Rodents, and Trombiculid Larval Mites, Thailand

Piyada LinsuwanonComments to Author , Yong Poovorawan, Keun Hwa Lee, Nutthanun Auysawasdi, Sirima Wongwairot, Chawin Limsuwan, Viboonsak Vuthitanachot, Surachai Leepitakrat, Sompong Vongpunsawasdi, Pornjarim Nilyanimit, Yossapong Paladsing, and Erica Lindroth
Author affiliation: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research–Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand (P. Linsuwanon, N. Auysawasdi, S. Wongwairot, C. Limsuwan, S. Leepitakrat, Y. Paladsing, E. Lindroth); Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine, Bangkok (Y. Poovorawan, S. Vongpunsawasdi, P. Nilyanimit); Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea (K.H. Lee); Chum Phae Hospital, Khon Kaen, Thailand (V. Vuthitanachot)

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Table 2

Positivity rates of SFTSV RNA detected in wild rodents, Thailand, 2015–2021*

Family Species No. (%) positive SFTSV RNA–positive, by tissue
Average RNA level, copies/mL
Lung Liver Spleen
Muridae Rattus tanezumi rat 1/559 (0.2) 1 4.07 × 104
R. exulans rat 1/98 (1) 1 3.05 × 103
R. novegicus rat 1/16 (6.3) 1 5.73 × 103
Mus cervicolor mouse 0/6
M. caroli mouse 1/7 (14.3) 1 4.03 × 103
Bandicota indica rat 2/113 (1.8) 1 1 4.89 × 103
B. savileii rat 2/121 (1.7) 2 1.01 × 104
Maxomys surifer rat 0/23
Niviventer fulvescens rat 0/5
Berylmys berdmorei rat 1/23 (4.3) 1 1.71 × 104
B. bowersi rat 0/1

Chiromyscus chiropus rat
0/1




Tupaiidae Tupaia belangeri shrew 0/19

T. glis shrew
0/9




Sciuridae
Menetes berdmorei squirrel
2/19 (10.5)
1

1
4.06 × 103
3 families
15 species
11/11,019 (1.1)
4
4
3

*SFTSV, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus; – , negative result.

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