Fatal Case of Imported Tick-Borne Encephalitis in South Serbia

Lidija Popović Dragonjić; Miodrag Vrbić; Aleksandar Tasić; Verica Simin; Ivana Bogdan; Dragana Mijatović; Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz; Pavle Banović

doi:10.3390/tropicalmed7120434

Fatal Case of Imported Tick-Borne Encephalitis in South Serbia

Trop Med Infect Dis. 2022 Dec 13;7(12):434. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed7120434.

Authors

Lidija Popović Dragonjić^{1

2}, Miodrag Vrbić^{1

2}, Aleksandar Tasić^{2

3}, Verica Simin⁴, Ivana Bogdan⁴, Dragana Mijatović^{5

6}, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz⁷, Pavle Banović^{5

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia.
² University Clinical Center, 18000 Niš, Serbia.
³ Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia.
⁴ Department for Microbiology, Pasteur Institute Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
⁵ Ambulance for Lyme Borreliosis and Other Tick-Borne Diseases, Pasteur Institute Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
⁶ Department for Research & Monitoring of Rabies & Other Zoonoses, Pasteur Institute Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
⁷ ANSES, INRAE, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, UMR BIPAR, Laboratoire de Santé Animale, F-94700 Maisons-Alfort, France.
⁸ Department of Microbiology with Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.

Abstract

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is vaccine-preventable neglected zoonotic neuroinvasive disease, caused by tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). Many of the Central and Eastern European countries are affected by TBE, which is often poorly perceived by tourists visiting endemic territories. Here we are reporting a fatal case of imported TBE in Serbian resident who was exposed to a tick bite during a visit to Switzerland.

Keywords: Serbia; Switzerland; fatal; tick; tick-borne encephalitis.

Publication types

Case Reports

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.