“…Almost all the cases came from the major islands. 68.9% of the cases were reported in Sicily (1953 cases) [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]20,25,26,31,33,34,36,42], 29.60% in Sardinia (838 cases) [18,19,29,32,35], the remaining 1.4% were reported from the other Italian regions [16,17,[21][22][23][24]28,30,[38][39][40][41]43,44,46,47,[49][50][51]. 18 imported cases were reported [43,44,48,50,51], 12 were African tick bite fevers (ATBF) [43,44,…”