| fourteen-year seroepidemiological study of zoonoses in a greek village. | a seroepidemiological study carried out in a high-risk village in crete in 1985-1987 and 1998 showed that although the awareness of the people concerning zoonoses had increased during this period, the situation did not improve: there was a significant increase of the spread of seroprevalence in time and space of coxiella burnetii, rickettsia typhi, brucella sp., and entamoeba histolytica. toxoplasma gondii, rickettsia conorii, borrelia burgdorferi, echinococcus granulosus, leishmania sp., and fa ... | 2002 | 12135274 |
| mediterranean spotted fever in crete, greece: clinical and therapeutic data of 15 consecutive patients. | the clinical, epidemiological, and therapeutic aspects of 15 patients with mediterranean spotted fever (msf), admitted to the internal medicine department of the general hospital of sitia (southeastern crete, greece) between december 2000 and july 2003, were studied. diagnosis was made on the basis of clinical signs and symptoms and was confirmed by serology. of the patients studied, 67% were men and 33% women, with a median age of 52 years (range of 23-76 years). ten cases (67%) were diagnosed ... | 2006 | 17114720 |