Tick-, flea- and mite-borne pathogens and associated diseases of public health importance in Bangladesh: a review.

Background: This scoping review provides a baseline summary of the current records of the ticks, fleas, and mites of public health importance that are present in Bangladesh. It summarizes their geographic distributions and reports the levels of their infestation of livestock, pets, wildlife, and humans, and the clinical and epidemiological studies pertinent to these vectors and their pathogens.

Methods: Sixty-one articles were identified in a literature search, including 43 published since 2011.

Utility of next-generation sequencing for the etiological diagnosis of infection.

Background: Scrub typhus, an acute febrile disease caused by is transmitted to humans through infected chigger mites. We present a case of scrub typhus in a previously healthy man from Shandong Province diagnosed using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and PCR and review recent literature on NGS for scrub typhus diagnosis.

Methods: NGS was utilized for testing whole blood collected on admission.

Use of eschar swab DNA to diagnose subspecies infection in Crimea: A case report.

Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) has been diagnosed clinically in the Crimean Peninsula since the 1930s. We describe the recent illness of an elderly patient from Crimea who had developed a classic triad of MSF symptoms consisting of fever, maculopapular rash, and eschar. Clinical diagnosis of rickettsiosis was confirmed using real-time PCR and sequencing of 4 protein genes.

History and Current Status of Mediterranean Spotted Fever (MSF) in the Crimean Peninsula and Neighboring Regions along the Black Sea Coast.

Mediterranean spotted fever (MSF) is a tick-borne rickettsiosis caused by subspecies and transmitted to humans by ticks. The disease was first discovered in Tunisia in 1910 and was subsequently reported from other Mediterranean countries. The first cases of MSF in the former Soviet Union were detected in 1936 on the Crimean Peninsula.