| SFTS | Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome |
| SFTSV | Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome virus |
| RNA | Ribo Nucleic Acid |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| RT-qPCR | Reverse Transcription quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| NPIEPH | Nagasaki Prefectural Institute of Environment and Public Health |
| CD-HIT | Cluster Database at High Identity with Tolerance |
| MAFFT | Multiple Alignment using Fast Fourier Transform |
| BWA | Burrows-Wheeler Aligner |
| PopArt | Population Analysis with Reticulate Trees |