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SUBMITTER: Jakimovski D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9585876 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20221001 42
Mediterranean spotted fever-like illness (MSF-like illness) is a tick-borne disease caused by <i>Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae</i> first reported in France more than 25 years ago. Until today, more than 50 cases of MSF-like illness have been reported in different regions of Europe and Africa, highlighting variable clinical manifestation. Here we report a case of MSF-like illness following a bite from a <i>Hyalomma</i> tick in the Skopje region of North Macedonia. ...[more]