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New tick disease found in Gothenburg
Published: Tuesday 25 October at 15:00 , News P4 G?teborg Share
Photo: Epp Anderson P?rn / Swedish Radio.
Researchers at the microbiologist in Gothenburg is the first in the world to find a new tick-borne disease. It is transmitted by ticks from voles and wood mice to humans and can provide patients with immunodeficiency, blood clots in the lungs and bones.
Christine Wenner?s: "What is scary is that it can cause blood clots"
Scientists have no idea how common it is because it has not been known before.
- We were the first who discovered this disease in a patient in 2009 and called it neosjukdomen for candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis, no one will remember, says Over Medical Enoch professor of microbiology Christine Wenner?s
Patients who came in was very ill including fever around 40 degrees in the week.
- After trying to find the cause of the fever, says Christine Wenner?s on her male patient. He was innne in hospital for three laps before we finally managed to find this bacterium can not grow. We used a method recently received the Nobel Prize where you are looking for small snippets of DNA from the bacterium patienens blood.
Through a vast database of DNA sequences they were able to arrive at what bacteria was involved.
- It was only when he could get the right antibiotics and when he was healthy right away.
So antibiotics bite neosjukdomen?
- Yes. luckily. What is scary is that it can cause blood clots and can be life threatening. All three patients came of course from the Gothenburg area and had underlying chronic diseases such as leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis and impaired defense.
How this disease affects healthy people, we know not. I think there is much less severe symptoms, but we know not, says Professor Wenner?s.
None of the ticks from the Gothenburg area microbiologist yet had time to collect has resulted in neosmitta still believed every ten ticks carry the disease.
Do you think there is any possibility to get any vaccine against neosjukan?
- It is in such cases very far in the future as intensively managed to grow the bacteria and then you can with the current methods do not produce any vaccine.
Chrstine Wenner?s still think you can safely continue to stay in the pastures and woods.
- Is it that you suffer from high fever and blood clots, you should think about this disease. Many do not they have been bitten by a tick. It gives no ring similar to Lyme disease often gives. Then you should ask her doctor to take such a blood sample and send it to us at the microbiologist here in Gothenburg, but otherwise I do not think you should have any code of conduct. One should of course be outdoors and enjoy.
Epp Anderson
epp.anderson @ sverigesradio.se
Swedish to English translation
New tick disease found in Gothenburg
Published: Tuesday 25 October at 15:00 , News P4 G?teborg Share
Photo: Epp Anderson P?rn / Swedish Radio.
Researchers at the microbiologist in Gothenburg is the first in the world to find a new tick-borne disease. It is transmitted by ticks from voles and wood mice to humans and can provide patients with immunodeficiency, blood clots in the lungs and bones.
Christine Wenner?s: "What is scary is that it can cause blood clots"
Scientists have no idea how common it is because it has not been known before.
- We were the first who discovered this disease in a patient in 2009 and called it neosjukdomen for candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis, no one will remember, says Over Medical Enoch professor of microbiology Christine Wenner?s
Patients who came in was very ill including fever around 40 degrees in the week.
- After trying to find the cause of the fever, says Christine Wenner?s on her male patient. He was innne in hospital for three laps before we finally managed to find this bacterium can not grow. We used a method recently received the Nobel Prize where you are looking for small snippets of DNA from the bacterium patienens blood.
Through a vast database of DNA sequences they were able to arrive at what bacteria was involved.
- It was only when he could get the right antibiotics and when he was healthy right away.
So antibiotics bite neosjukdomen?
- Yes. luckily. What is scary is that it can cause blood clots and can be life threatening. All three patients came of course from the Gothenburg area and had underlying chronic diseases such as leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis and impaired defense.
How this disease affects healthy people, we know not. I think there is much less severe symptoms, but we know not, says Professor Wenner?s.
None of the ticks from the Gothenburg area microbiologist yet had time to collect has resulted in neosmitta still believed every ten ticks carry the disease.
Do you think there is any possibility to get any vaccine against neosjukan?
- It is in such cases very far in the future as intensively managed to grow the bacteria and then you can with the current methods do not produce any vaccine.
Chrstine Wenner?s still think you can safely continue to stay in the pastures and woods.
- Is it that you suffer from high fever and blood clots, you should think about this disease. Many do not they have been bitten by a tick. It gives no ring similar to Lyme disease often gives. Then you should ask her doctor to take such a blood sample and send it to us at the microbiologist here in Gothenburg, but otherwise I do not think you should have any code of conduct. One should of course be outdoors and enjoy.
Epp Anderson
epp.anderson @ sverigesradio.se