Epidemiological and clinical features of tick-borne encephalitis in northwestern region of Belarus

Abstract

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY - to present epidemiological features and clinical manifestations of TBE in patients residing in Grodno region. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective analysis of 124 case histories of patients with TBE in "Grodno Regional Infectious Clinical Hospital" in 2010 - 2014. RESULTS. Epidemiological features of tick-bome encephalitis are the prevalence of the transmission mechanism of contamination (57.3%), involvement of residents of Grodno and Grodno region (54.2%) of middle age (46.6±3.5 years) in the epidemic process. Clinical features of the illness in 124 patients were the prevalence of moderate forms of the illness (72%) in the form of meningeal (34.6%) and common infectious (29%) clinical cases. CONCLUSIONS. Over the last 5 years in Grodno region an increased incidence of tick-borne encephalitis exceeding republican indices has been established. Among clinical cases there is an increase in severe forms of neuroinfections and mixed tick-borne.