Publication at Second Faculty of Medicine |
2022
Abstract
Ticks are a vector and often a reservoir of viral and bacterial diseases. A person usually gets infected after the infestation of an infected tick or its developmental stage as a random link in its life cycle.
Due to the geographical conditions in the Czech Republic, these diseases have a epidemiological significance and impact on morbidity. The communication subject describes infections, their epidemiology, clinical picture, and diagnostics, focusing on the specifics of childhood in our conditions.
The subject of a separate communication is Lyme borreliosis, the most common of these presented diseases.