Kene Isırığı Sonrası Tularemi Seroprevalansının Araştırılması

Year 2016, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 1 - 5, 01.06.2016

Mehmet Yahyaoğlu , Oğuz Karabay , Şaban Gürcan Nazan Tuna Ömer Orkun

Abstract

Tularemia; Francisella tularensis caused by people infected animal tissue or with body fluids, skin and mucosa in direct contact, arthropods (ticks, lice and flies) with bites, contaminated water or food consumed by the infected is a disease transmitted by inhalation of aerosols. Some species of tick (Dermacentor andersoni, Dermacentor variabilis and Amblyomma americanum) were reported to be important in the spread of tularemia. In this study, in patients with tick bites tularemia seroprevalence was investigated. This study was conducted between June and September 2011. A total 134 voluntary patients with informant consent included. Based on clinical and demographic characteristics were recorded and 1. day and 28. day serum samples were obtained microagglutination test for F. tularensis was studied. Ticks obtained from bite  taken from patients with the same period were identified morphologically. During the study period a total of 134 (74 female and 60 male) were included in the study. Day 1 and day 28 in case none of the patients had fever and F. tularensis were no significant microagglutination test positive. Types of obtained maximum tick Hyalomma (53%) and Ixodes (39%), respectively. A tick bite in the our region is not epidemiological importance in the transmission of tularemia. In our region we've identified human bite tick species is the most Hyalomma and Ixoides.

Keywords

tick bite, tularemia, aerosol, Francisella tularensis, Hyolemma, Ixoides

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