Neoehrlichiosis is the name of a dangerous disease caused by the bacterium Neoehrlichia mikurensis. The bacterium is spread by ticks and is present in Poland, according to scientists from the University of Warmia and Mazury.
Tick-borne diseases are not only associated with Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). As a researcher from the University of Warmia and Mazury points out, doctors have another reason to warn against ticks.
Neoerlichiosis symptoms
Dr. Katarzyna Kubiak from the Department of Medical Biology at the UWM School of Public Health explains that Neoerlichia micurensis Bacteria carried by ticks are dangerous to humans. The disease caused by them causes severe symptoms. “The problem is that these are non-specific and generalized symptoms, different in different people and similar to symptoms of other diseases,” says Dr. Kubiak, quoted in a university release.
Infection Neoelichia micurensis occurs:
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high temperature up to 40℃.
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cough,
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arthralgia,
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allergy,
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nausea,
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diarrhea,
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thrombotic complications,
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hemorrhage and enlargement of the spleen and liver.
– While the symptoms of Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis can be diagnosed by doctors, the symptoms of neoerlichiosis after being bitten by an infected tick Neoerlichia micurensis - NO. Also, patients usually do not associate these symptoms with a tick bite. It is also difficult for doctors to link such different and non-specific diseases in patients with neoerlichiosis and to treat people blindly, i.e. long and often with little effect, explains Dr. Katarzyna Kubiak.
International research on neoerlichiosis
The researcher emphasizes that the symptoms of neoerlichiosis in humans are not yet well described in the scientific literature, since the pathogen was known only recently. Its detection in ticks was described in the early 2000s and has since been identified in Europe, Asia, and North America. At the same time, there are more and more reports of cases of neoerlichiosis in humans.
In Poland, research Neoelichia micurensis is led by a team of scientists from UWM, who last year started a collaboration in this area with scientists from the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases of the NOVA University in Lisbon.
Knowledge about tick-borne neoerlichosis in humans is still little known to doctors, but we do not stop working to disseminate information about it. Increasing physicians’ awareness of the occurrence of tick-borne diseases, other than Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, will facilitate faster recognition of non-specific symptoms and the selection of more effective methods of their treatment, says Dr. Katarzyna Kubiak.
Source: Wprost
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