3.3 Laboratory test results
The 5 patients diagnosed with SFTS mainly showed decreased white blood
cell counts (WBC; 4/5), platelet counts (PLT; 5/5), alanine
aminotransferase (ALT; 5/5), and aspartate aminotransferase (AST; 4/5),
blood urea nitrogen (BUN; 2/5), creatine kinase (CK; 4/5), and increased
lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; 5/5). All 5 patients with SFTS had
thrombocytopenia, but other patients also had cytopenia (7/12) (Table
1).