Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Euro Surveill. 2015 Aug 13;20(32):2-5.
We report an imported case of louse-borne relapsing fever in a young adult Eritrean refugee who presented with fever shortly after arriving in Switzerland. Analysis of blood smears revealed spirochetes identified as Borrelia recurrentis by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. We believe that louse-borne relapsing fever may be seen more frequently in Europe as a consequence of a recent increase in refugees from East Africa travelling to Europe under poor hygienic conditions in confined spaces.
我们报告了一例在年轻的厄立特里亚难民中发生的虱传回归热输入病例，该患者在抵达瑞士后不久出现发热。血液涂片分析显示，通过 16S rRNA 基因测序鉴定为回归热螺旋体（Borrelia recurrentis）。我们认为，由于最近来自东非的难民在卫生条件差的密闭空间中前往欧洲，虱传回归热在欧洲可能会更频繁地出现。
