Trape J F, Godeluck B, Diatta G, Rogier C, Legros F, Albergel J, Pepin Y, Duplantier J M
Laboratoire de Paludologie, ORSTOM, B.P. 1386, Sénégal.
Rocz Akad Med Bialymst. 1996;41(1):136-41.
Tick-borne borreliosis in West Africa is classically considered a rare disease whose geographic distribution is limited to Saharan and Sahelian regions. We report results of epidemiological investigations which indicate that tick-borne borreliosis is endemic in all regions of Senegal north to the 13 degrees 30'N latitude and is a major cause of morbidity in these areas. Our findings indicate a considerable range extension for the vector tick Alectorobius sonrai and suggest that the persistence of Subsaharan drought is responsible for a large spread of tick-borne borreliosis in West Africa.
在西非，蜱传疏螺旋体病传统上被认为是一种罕见疾病，其地理分布仅限于撒哈拉和萨赫勒地区。我们报告的流行病学调查结果表明，蜱传疏螺旋体病在塞内加尔北纬13度30分以北的所有地区均为地方病，并且是这些地区发病的主要原因。我们的研究结果表明媒介蜱Alectorobius sonrai的分布范围有了相当大的扩展，并表明撒哈拉以南地区干旱的持续存在是蜱传疏螺旋体病在西非广泛传播的原因。
