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BACKGROUND: Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis (CNM) is an emerging tick-born pathogen and usually causes symptomatic infection only in immunocompromised patients. Apart from one described case found in the literature where cultivation was successful, all cases so far were diagnosed by using broad-range 16S rDNA PCR. CASE PRESENTATION: Our patient presented with a prolonged febrile state of unknown origin. Clinical presentation, extensive medical workup and classic microbiologic testing were non-conclusive. Several infectious agents and other causes for the febrile state were excluded. In the end, a broad-range 16S rDNA PCR was to be performed to confirm the diagnosis of CNM infection. Treatment was successful with doxycycline. CONCLUSIONS: Due to the obscurity of the pathogen, diagnostic workup in CNM is prolonged and challenging. More awareness is need about this emerging infectious disease in countries with high prevalence of tick-borne diseases as standard microbiological methods are not successful in confirming the diagnosis.
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Infecciones por Anaplasmataceae/diagnóstico , Anaplasmataceae/aislamiento & purificación , Anciano , Anaplasmataceae/genética , Infecciones por Anaplasmataceae/tratamiento farmacológico , Infecciones por Anaplasmataceae/microbiología , Animales , Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico , Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes/epidemiología , Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes/microbiología , Doxiciclina/uso terapéutico , Femenino , Humanos , Ixodes/microbiología , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa , Prevalencia , ARN Ribosómico 16S/aislamiento & purificación , Eslovenia , Enfermedades por Picaduras de Garrapatas/tratamiento farmacológico , Enfermedades por Picaduras de Garrapatas/epidemiología , Enfermedades por Picaduras de Garrapatas/microbiología , Garrapatas/microbiología , Resultado del TratamientoRESUMEN
We monitored trends of severe COVID-19 morbidity in Slovenia during weeks 13 to 37 2021. National weekly rates of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) cases testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 at admission in all hospitals varied between 0.2 and 16.3 cases per 100,000 population. Of those without previous COVID-19 diagnosis, SARI COVID-19 admission rates ranged between 0.3 and 17.5 per 100,000 unvaccinated, and 0.0 and 7.3 per 100,000 fully vaccinated individuals. National SARI COVID-19 surveillance is essential in informing COVID-19 response.