Rickettsiae and rickettsial diseases in Croatia: Implications for travel medicine

Travel and tick-borne diseases: Lyme disease and beyond

“…Even Lyme disease can be misdiagnosed in patients who travel to areas of the Northern hemisphere where the disease is endemic and subsequently return to southern countries where the vectors are absent and the disease is not known or considered by regional health care providers [1]. In a similar manner, the numbers of travel-related cases of tick-borne encephalitis are probably underestimated since there is little awareness of this disease in countries where the pathogen is not endemic and often seroepidemiological studies are the first to the extent of exposure to TBD [3].…”

Seek and Find! PCR analyses of skin infections in West-European travelers returning from abroad with an eschar

“…In conclusion, the diagnosis of travel-related skin infections is particularly challenging because of a broad differential diagnostic strategies and the physicians' unfamiliarity with rare diseases [32][33][34]. Our strategy, by targeting the most commonly encountered causative agents, provides a sensitive and rapid diagnostic method in this context.…”

Proteomic analysis of Rickettsia akari proposes a 44 kDa-OMP as a potential biomarker for Rickettsialpox diagnosis

“…Nevertheless, it was also detected in the mite Leptotrombidium scutellare [8] and Korean voles Microtus fortis pelliceus [9]. Rickettsialpox was first described in New York City in 1946 [10] and has been since reported in diverse parts of Europe, Asia and North America [11][12][13][14][15][16]. Patients suffering from this illness describe fever, headache, lymphadenopathy, myalgia, and eschar at the site of the mite bite.…”