| Title |
Update on Tick-Borne Bacterial Diseases in Travelers
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Current Infectious Disease Reports, May 2018
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11908-018-0624-y |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carole Eldin, Philippe Parola |
| Abstract |
Ticks are the second most important vectors of infectious diseases after mosquitoes worldwide. The growth of international tourism including in rural and remote places increasingly exposes travelers to tick bite. Our aim was to review the main tick-borne infectious diseases reported in travelers in the past 5 years. In recent years, tick-borne bacterial diseases have emerged in travelers including spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsioses, borrelioses, and diseases caused by bacteria of the Anaplasmataceae family. African tick-bite fever, due to Rickettsia africae, is the most frequent agent reported in travelers returned from Sub-Saharan areas. Other SFG agents are increasingly reported in travelers, and clinicians should be aware of them. Lyme disease can be misdiagnosed in Southern countries. Organisms causing tick-borne relapsing fever are neglected pathogens worldwide, and reports in travelers have allowed the description of new species. Infections due to Anaplasmataceae bacteria are more rarely described in travelers, but a new species of Neoehrlichia has recently been detected in a traveler. The treatment of these infections relies on doxycycline, and travelers should be informed before the trip about prevention measures against tick bites. |
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| United States | 2 | 22% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| Poland | 1 | 11% |
| Norway | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 4 | 44% |
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| Members of the public | 7 | 78% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 11% |
| Scientists | 1 | 11% |
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| Unknown | 55 | 100% |
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| Other | 7 | 13% |
| Researcher | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 11% |
| Professor | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 15% |
| Unknown | 18 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 22% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 5 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 22 | 40% |
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