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Ferreting out viral pathogenesis

Severe fever with thrombocytopenia virus is an emerging, highly lethal tick-borne pathogen with growing impact. In this issue of Nature Microbiology, two papers make major progress towards a better understanding of its so far incompletely understood mechanisms of virulence.

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Fig. 1: Suppressive and activating effects of SFTSV NSs on host signalling pathways.

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Wuerth, J.D., Weber, F. Ferreting out viral pathogenesis. Nat Microbiol 4, 384–385 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0390-0

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