Mild Clinical Course of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus Infection in an Elderly Japanese Patient

Figure 2

Detection of Japanese SFTSV mRNA using a conventional one-step RT-PCR method. Clinical specimen by RT-PCR: lane 1: our patient’s blood sample; lane 2: negative control (NTC); lane 3: positive control (PC) (SFTSV strain HB29 viral RNA). Primer sets numbers 1 and 2 amplified the gene coding SFTSV NP, and the sizes of these products were 458 bp and 461 bp, respectively.