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Louse-borne relapsing fever-A systematic review and analysis of the literature: Part 2-Mortality, Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, impact on pregnancy.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is a classical epidemic disease, which in the past was associated with war, famine, poverty, forced migration, and crowding under poor hygienic conditions around the world.
Pascal Kahlig, Andreas Neumayr, Daniel H Paris   +2 more
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Characterisation of silent and active genes for a variable large protein of Borrelia recurrentis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2002
Background We report the characterisation of the variable large protein (vlp) gene expressed by clinical isolate A1 of Borrelia recurrentis; the agent of the life-threatening disease louse-borne relapsing fever.
Scragg Ian G, Cutler Sally, Vidal Vincent, Wright David JM, Kwiatkowski Dominic   +4 more
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Louseborne Relapsing Fever among East African Refugees, Italy, 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
During June 9–September 30, 2015, five cases of louseborne relapsing fever were identified in Turin, Italy. All 5 cases were in young refugees from Somalia, 2 of whom had lived in Italy since 2011.
Anna Lucchini, Filippo Lipani, Cecilia Costa, Mariaelisabetta Scarvaglieri, Rosanna Balbiano, Sinibaldo Carosella, Andrea Calcagno, Sabrina Audagnotto, Anna Maria Barbui, Silvia Brossa, Valeria Ghisetti, Ivano Dal Conte, Pietro Caramello, Giovanni Di Perri   +13 more
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First cluster of relapsing fever compatible with louse-borne transmission in southern Saudi Arabia: An eight-case series from Najran

Journal of Infection and Public Health
Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF), caused by Borrelia recurrentis, is a neglected vector-borne infection associated with overcrowding, migration, and poor hygiene conditions. We describe eight spatiotemporally linked cases of Borrelia spp.
Mohammed Bazuqamah, Ali Bazqamah, Mohammad Moharram, Amira Soliman, Ghada Balah, Eslam Helal, Hend Masoud, Ali Garbo, Hadi Al Sulayyim   +8 more
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Serological evidence of louse-borne relapsing fever in northern Kenya

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Background: Tick- and louse-borne relapsing fever are highly-neglected, vector-borne diseases caused by diverse Borrelia species. Presently, there are no data available on the endemicity of tick- and louse-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in Kenya. Here,
Flavia Reyer, Martyna Olesiuk, Florian Röttgerding, Volker Fingerle, Abdulrahman Adamu, Dan Waithiru, John Njeru, Peter Kraiczy   +7 more
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Floc-size effects of the pathogenic bacteria in a membrane bioreactor plant

Environment International, 2019
The size nature of sludge flocs could affect the occurrence and distribution of bacterial pathogens in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In this study, the floc-size dependence of bacterial pathogens in the activated sludge of a WWTP was investigated ...
Shaoqing Zhang, Zhili He, Fangang Meng
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Genetic diversity of human head lice and molecular detection of associated bacterial pathogens in Democratic Republic of Congo

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Background Head louse, Pediculus humanus capitis, is an obligatory blood-sucking ectoparasite, distributed worldwide. Phylogenetically, it occurs in five divergent mitochondrial clades (A–E); each exhibiting a particular geographical distribution. Recent
Celia Scherelle Boumbanda Koyo, Nadia Amanzougaghene, Bernard Davoust, Leon Tshilolo, Jean Bernard Lekana-Douki, Didier Raoult, Oleg Mediannikov, Florence Fenollar   +7 more
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Tickborne Relapsing Fever in Southern Iran, 2011–2013

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
Saied Reza Naddaf, Behnaz Ghazinezhad, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat, Hossein Masoumi Asl, Sally Jane Cutler   +4 more
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Lice, rodents, and many hopes: a rare disease in a young refugee

Critical Care, 2017
Salvatore L. Cutuli, Gennaro De Pascale, Teresa Spanu, Antonio M. Dell’Anna, Maria G. Bocci, Federico Pallavicini, Fabiola Mancini, Alessandra Ciervo, Massimo Antonelli   +8 more
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The ability of relapsing fever <i>Borrelia</i> species to survive in chicken serum <i>in vitro</i> and its correlation to interaction with serum components reactive to a polyclonal anti-complement regulator factor H antibody. [PDF]

Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis
Jakobsson T, Bergström S, Normark J.
europepmc   +1 more source