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. 2021 Oct;27(10):2736-2738.
doi: 10.3201/eid2710.204621.

Autochthonous Case of Rickettsia slovaca Infection in Russia

Ruslan F Sayfullin, Nadezhda E Perekopskaya, Ludmila S Karan, Nadezhda N Zvereva, Muhammad A Sayfullin

Autochthonous Case of Rickettsia slovaca Infection in Russia

Ruslan F Sayfullin et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2021 Oct.

Abstract

We describe an autochthonous case of Rickettsia slovaca infection in a man 35 years of age from Russia who had tickborne lymphadenopathy. We used ELISA and quantitative PCR testing to further identify DNA and confirm diagnosis. Physicians in Russia should consider similar diseases in differential diagnoses after tick bites.

Keywords: Rickettsia slovaca; Russia; bacteria; rickettsial infections; spotted fever group rickettsiosis; tick-borne infections; ticks; vector-borne infections.

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Regions in Russia where Rickettsia slovaca was detected only in ticks and the region where an autochthonous human case of R. slovaca infection was registered.
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