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Volume 28, Number 12—December 2022
Research

Hedgehogs as Amplifying Hosts of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus, China

Chaoyue Zhao, Xing Zhang, Xiaoxi Si, Ling Ye, Kevin Lawrence, Yajun Lu, Chunhong Du, Haidong Xu, Qian Yang, Qianfeng Xia, Guoxiang Yu, Wei Xu, Fei Yuan, Junfeng HaoComments to Author , Jia-Fu Jiang, and Aihua ZhengComments to Author 
Author affiliations: State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (C. Zhao, F. Yuan, A. Zheng); CAS Center for Excellence in Biotic Interactions, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (C. Zhao, X. Zhang, A. Zheng); College of Life Sciences, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China (X. Si); Daishan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China (L. Ye); Massey University School of Veterinary Science, Palmerston North, New Zealand (K. Lawrence); Key Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education, School of Tropical Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China (Y. Lu, Q. Xia); Yunnan Institute of Endemic Diseases Control and Prevention, Yunnan, China (C. Du); Shaozhuang Primary School, Weifang, China (H. Xu); Department of Infectious Disease, Yidu Central Hospital of Weifang, Weifang, Shandong, China (Q. Yang); Changdao National Nature Reserve Management Center, Yantai, Shandong, China (G. Yu); Xinyang Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Xinyang, Henan, China (W. Xu); Core Facility for Protein Research, Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (J. Hao); State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing (J. Jiang)

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Table 3

Average number of ticks collected from wild mammals captured in Daishan County, China, in study of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus

Animal No. ticks
Sorex araneus shrew 1.5
Rattus norvegicus brown rat 1
Rattus losea ricefield rat 0
Apodemus agrarius striped field mouse 0
Erinaceus amurensis hedgehog 145

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