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Epidemiologic characteristics of rickettsial diseases in Croatia

The presence and prevalence of rickettsial diseases and their geographic distribution in Croatia were investigated. The pattern of these diseases was monitored during 1992-2003 period. The rickettsial diseases that occur sporadically in the littoral of Croatia (Adriatic islands and coastal area) include Mediterranean spotted fever, murine typhus, Brill-Zinsser disease and a clinical entity known as rickettsioses. Mediterranean spotted fever and murine typhus are considered to be endemic exclusively in Dalmatia. As the term rickettsioses have been used because of inadequate laboratory differentiation of causative agents, the species of rickettsia responsible for this clinical entity remains unknown. The highly efficient military infectious disease research should be continued to shed more light upon this important issue.

Croatia; epidemiology; rickettsioses

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