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Historical overview and update on relapsing fever group Borrelia in Latin America

Parasites & Vectors, 2022
Relapsing fever group Borrelia (RFGB) are motile spirochetes transmitted to mammalian or avian hosts through the bite of hematophagous arthropods, such as soft ticks (Argasidae), hard ticks (Ixodidae) and the human clothing lice.
Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez, Carlos Ramiro Silva-Ramos, Adriana M. Santodomingo, Alejandro Ramírez-Hernández, Francisco B. Costa, Marcelo B. Labruna, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal   +6 more
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Killing Clothes Lice by Holding Infested Clothes Away from Hosts for 10 Days to Control Louseborne Relapsing Fever, Bahir Dah, Ethiopia

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
Louseborne relapsing fever (LBRF) was once a cosmopolitan disease, but it now occurs only in the Horn of Africa. Recent cases in refugees to Europe made LBRF topical again.
Stephen C. Barker, Dayana Barker
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May-Grünwald-Giemsa (MGG) stained thin film showing numerous spirochetes (arrows) identified as Borrelia recurrentis (1,000-fold magnification).

, 2016
May-Grünwald-Giemsa (MGG) stained thin film showing numerous spirochetes (arrows) identified as Borrelia recurrentis (1,000-fold magnification).
Erika Longhi (2697385), Davide Ricaboni (2697394), Giovanna Bestetti (2697388), Spinello Antinori (2697382), Sara Giordana Rimoldi (2697391), Oleg Mediannikov (199078), Florence Fenollar (74934), Romualdo Grande (761344), Carlo Parravicini (2697379), Didier Raoult (3833), Cyrille Bilé Ehounoud (845983), Mario Corbellino (2697376)   +11 more
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Possibilities for Relapsing Fever Reemergence

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Relapsing fever Borrelia infections have attracted little attention in recent years; however, where endemic, these infections still result in considerable illness and death. Despite the marked antimicrobial drug susceptibility of these organisms, therapy
Sally J. Cutler
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Complement factor H-related proteins CFHR2 and CFHR5 represent novel ligands for the infection-associated CRASP proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi

, 2010
Background: One virulence property of Borrelia burgdorferi is its resistance to innate immunity, in particular to complement-mediated killing. Serum-resistant B.
Teresia Hallström, Hallström Teresia, Christine Skerka, Beckhaus Tobias, Skerka, Christine, Karas Michael, Hannes Eberhardt, Michael Karas, Barbara Uzonyi, Corinna Siegel, Kraiczy Peter, Eberhardt, Hannes, Uzonyi Barbara, Zipfel, Peter F., Beckhaus, Tobias, Peter Kraiczy, Karas, Michael (Prof. Dr.), Stevenson, Brian, Peter F Zipfel, Stevenson Brian, Uzonyi, Barbara, Brian Stevenson, Peter F. Zipfel, Siegel, Corinna, Hallström, Teresia, Kraiczy, Peter, Tobias Beckhaus, Eberhardt Hannes, Skerka Christine, Wallich, Reinhard, Zipfel Peter F., Reinhard Wallich, Siegel Corinna, Karas, Michael, Wallich Reinhard   +34 more
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Serodiagnosis of Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever with Glycerophosphodiester Phosphodiesterase (GlpQ) from Borrelia recurrentis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2000
ABSTRACT Human louse-borne relapsing fever occurs in sporadic outbreaks in central and eastern Africa that are characterized by significant morbidity and mortality. Isolates of the causative agent, Borrelia recurrentis , were obtained from the blood of four patients during a recent epidemic of the disease ...
S F, Porcella, S J, Raffel, M E, Schrumpf, M E, Schriefer, D T, Dennis, T G, Schwan   +5 more
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Louse-borne relapsing fever-A systematic review and analysis of the literature: Part 1-Epidemiology and diagnostic aspects.

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, Daniel H Paris, Andreas Neumayr   +2 more
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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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Louse-borne relapsing fever (Borrelia recurrentis) in an Eritrean refugee arriving in Switzerland, August 2015 [PDF]

Eurosurveillance, 2015
We report an imported case of louse-borne relapsing fever in a young adult Eritrean refugee who presented with fever shortly after arriving in Switzerland. Analysis of blood smears revealed spirochetes identified as Borrelia recurrentis by 16S rRNA gene sequencing.
Goldenberger, D., Claas, G. J., Bloch-Infanger, C., Breidthardt, T., Suter, B., Martinez, M., Neumayr, A., Blaich, A., Egli, A., Osthoff, M.   +9 more
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Head Lice of Pygmies Reveal the Presence of Relapsing Fever Borreliae in the Republic of Congo.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
BackgroundHead lice, Pediculus humanus capitis, occur in four divergent mitochondrial clades (A, B, C and D), each having particular geographical distributions.
Nadia Amanzougaghene, Jean Akiana, Géor Mongo Ndombe, Bernard Davoust, Nardiouf Sjelin Nsana, Henri-Joseph Parra, Florence Fenollar, Didier Raoult, Oleg Mediannikov   +8 more
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