Epidemiological and etiological features of travel-related febrile illnesses in hospitalized Russian children and adults: A single-centre, retrospective analysis in Moscow.

Background: A number of factors can lead to differences in infectious disease morbidity in children versus adults after a trip abroad. We aimed to investigate the epidemiological and etiological features of infectious diseases in children after international travel.

Methods: we analyzed the medical records of 2135 patients (416 children) who were hospitalized during the period 2009-2017 after return from international travel.

Two Cases of Dengue Fever Imported from Egypt to Russia, 2017.

In 2017, two cases of dengue fever were imported from Hurghada, Egypt, where dengue fever was not considered endemic, to Moscow. These cases show how emergence of dengue fever in popular resort regions on the coast of the Red Sea can spread infection to countries where it is not endemic.

[Isolation of the Chikungunya virus in Moscow from the Indonesian visitor (September, 2013)].

The results of the virological identification of the Chikungunya fever case in Moscow (September, 2013) in an Indonesian visitor are presented. The clinic, electron microscopy, and molecular genetic data are discussed. The Ghikungunya virus (CHIKV) strain CHIKVILEIV-Moscow/1/2013 belonging to the Asian genotype (ID GenBank KF872195) was deposited into the Russian State Collection of viruses (GKV 1239; 18.

[Emergence of tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsiosis in Moscow].

Aim: Analysis of clinical cases of tick-borne spotted fever (TSF) group rickettsiosis in 2005 - 2010.

Materials And Methods: General clinical, biochemical and serological parameters were determined in 10 tick-borne spotted fever group rickettsiosis patients who had visited various geographical regions of the World.

Results: TSF group rickettsiosis diagnostic criteria, optimal serological diagnostics timing were determined.