Fig. 3

SFTS viral qPCR results. Organs were harvested from WT and IFNAR Ab mice 1, 3, 7, 12, and 17 dpi with 5 × 10² FAID₅₀ SFTSV by i.p. infection. Organs from the IFNAR^−/− mice were collected 1 and 3 dpi. Serum samples were collected 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 dpi. The solid lines indicate the mean + SD from four mice per group. The SFTSV RNA loads were higher in the brain, lung, liver, spleen, small intestine, large intestine, kidney, and serum of the mice. * p < 0.05, relative to IFNAR^−/− mice, Mann-Whitney test