Analysis of spatial-temporal distribution characteristics and natural infection status of SFTS cases in Hefei from 2015 to 2021.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateEthics approval for this study was obtained from Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention. All participants provided consent to participate in the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Availability of data and materialsNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. FundingNot applicable. Author contributionsQi Zhang and Wenwen Liu contributed equally to this work. They designed the study, analysed the data and wrote the manuscript. Wenjing Wang, Linlin Zhang and Juan Li contributed to the data collection and were involved in the revision of the manuscript. Renshu Tang and Jing Jin were involved in testing and confirming the diagnosis of SFTS. Qi Zhang and Wenwen Liu wrote the manuscript with assistance from Wei Chen and Lei Zhang and input and approval from all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. AcknowledgementsNot applicable. Authors’ informationAll authors are from Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, China. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

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