Tick-borne infections in the conditions of the Czech Republic

Czech version

Authors: Blechová Zuzana; Smíšková Dita
Authors‘ workplace: Klinika infekčních, parazitárních a tropických nemocí, Fakultní nemocnice Bulovka, Praha ; Klinika infekčních nemocí 2. lékařské fakulty Univerzity Karlovy a Fakultní nemocnice Bulovka, Praha
Published in: Čes-slov Pediat 2022; 77 (Supplementum 1): 13-18.
Category: Review
doi: https://doi.org/10.55095/CSPediatrie2022/024

Overview

Ticks are a vector and often a reservoir of viral and bacterial diseases. A person usually gets infected after the infestation of an infected tick or its developmental stage as a random link in its life cycle. Due to the geographical conditions in the Czech Republic, these diseases have a epidemiological significance and impact on morbidity. The communication subject describes infections, their epidemiology, clinical picture, and diagnostics, focusing on the specifics of childhood in our conditions. The subject of a separate communication is Lyme borreliosis, the most common of these presented diseases.

Keywords:

diagnosis – tularemia – Ticks – Tick-borne encephalitis – Babesiosis – childhood – treatment – ehrlichiosis

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Czech-Slovak Pediatrics

2022 Issue Supplementum 1