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Only six microbiologically confirmed\u00a0SENLAT cases have been reported in Italy between 1996 and 2021. We report ten cases of SENLAT seen between 2015 and 2022 in a tertiary care center in Tuscany, Italy. <\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Cases presentation<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>All patients were women; most common symptoms were scalp eschar on the site of tick bite (100%) and cervical lymphadenopathy (90%). No microbiological identification was obtained. Persistent alopecia, for several months to years, was observed in four patients. The known difficulty of microbiological diagnosis in SENLAT was worsened, in our cases, by factors as the absence of ticks available for identification and microbiological study, and antibiotic treatment administration previous to microbiological tests. <\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The report highlights the presence of SENLAT in Italy, aiming to raise the awareness toward the emergence of this clinical entity.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s15010-023-02079-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,11]],"date-time":"2023-08-11T02:01:17Z","timestamp":1691719277000},"page":"1847-1854","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Scalp eschar and neck lymph adenopathy after a tick bite (SENLAT) in Tuscany, Italy (2015\u20132022)"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"51","author":[{"given":"Anna","family":"Barbiero","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tommaso","family":"Manciulli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Spinicci","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Iacopo","family":"Vellere","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Maria Grazia","family":"Colao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Gian Maria","family":"Rossolini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alessandro","family":"Bartoloni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Didier","family":"Raoult","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lorenzo","family":"Zammarchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"2079_CR1","unstructured":"Reh\u00e1c\u011bk J. 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