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First documented case of imported tick‐borne encephalitis in A ustralia
Author(s) -
Chaudhuri A.,
Růžek D.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.12017
Subject(s) - unavailability , medicine , encephalitis , tick borne encephalitis , tick , virology , intensive care medicine , immunology , virus , engineering , reliability engineering
We report a case of tick‐borne encephalitis that has not been described before in A ustralia. The patient was a returned traveller from R ussia who had typical manifestations of this infection. Clinical diagnosis was elusive because of the peculiar biphasic nature of the illness and its rarity in A ustralia. Laboratory diagnosis was also challenging and required testing at a reference laboratory in the C zech R epublic because of the unavailability of specific assays in A ustralia. This report aims to make physicians from non‐endemic regions aware that tick‐borne encephalitis can be imported and to familiarise them with its clinical course.