Eradication of Typhus Exanthematicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences

Sandra Puvačić¹  Zlatko Puvačić¹  Jelena Ravlija²  Sadeta Hamzić³  Šukrija Zvizdić³  Edina Bešlagić³ 

[1] Department of Epidemiology and Statics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo;Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mostar;Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo;

关键词: Typhus exanthematicus;    transmission;    eradication;   

DOI  :  10.17305/bjbms.2006.3215

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Typhus exanthematicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina held in endemic areas from which especially quickly began spread after 1945. That year, in 1945, one hundred epidemics of typhus fever appeared, with the highest incidence rate in Europe of 215.04 per 1,000. Directions of unique program in the world were to eradicate lice of the body, but also establish monitoring of the recidivism, Brill-Zinsser disease. Since 1971, typhus exanthematicus (classical typhus) hasn't appeared in Bosnia and Herzegovina, so epidemic typhus can considered as an eradicated communicable disease.

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