Eradication of Typhus Exanthematicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zlatko Puvačić; Edina Bešlagić; Šukrija Zvizdić; Sandra Puvačić; Jelena Ravlija; Sadeta Hamzić

doi:10.17305/bjbms.2006.3215

Authors

Zlatko Puvačić Department of Epidemiology and Statics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo
Edina Bešlagić Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo
Šukrija Zvizdić Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo
Sandra Puvačić Department of Epidemiology and Statics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo
Jelena Ravlija Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mostar
Sadeta Hamzić Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sarajevo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17305/bjbms.2006.3215

Keywords:

Typhus exanthematicus, transmission, eradication

Abstract

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.