Novel approaches for the serodiagnosis of louse-borne relapsing fever
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022 Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) caused by B. recurrentis is a poverty-related and neglected infectious disease with an endemic focus in the Horn of Africa.
Florian Röttgerding +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundLouse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) remains a cause of sporadic illness and occasional outbreaks in Ethiopia and other east African countries in overcrowded and unhygienic settings.
Eyob Girma Abera, Kedir Negesso Tukeni
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Louse-borne relapsing fever in a refugee from Somalia arriving in Belgium [PDF]
Journal of Travel Medicine, 2016 We report a case of louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) in a refugee from Somalia who had arrived in Belgium a few days earlier. He complained of myalgia and secondarily presented fever. Blood smears revealed spirochetes later identified as Borrelia recurrentis.
Gilles Darcis +2 more
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Serological evidence of louse-borne relapsing fever in northern Kenya
Travel Medicine and Infectious DiseaseBackground: 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 +7 more
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Louse-borne relapsing fever among East African refugees in Europe
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2016 Louse-borne relapsing fever a neglected and forgotten disease by western physicians has recently re-emerged among East African migrants seeking asylum in Europe. We review here the cases observed so far together with a critical reappraisal of several issues regarding clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment.
Oleg Mediannikov +2 more
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Emerging bacterial infectious diseases/pathogens vectored by human lice
Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Human lice have always been a major public health concern due to their vector capacity for louse-borne infectious diseases, like trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and epidemic fever, which are caused by Bartonella quintana, Borrelia recurrentis,
Yuan-Ping Deng +6 more
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Borreliae Part 2: Borrelia Relapsing Fever Group and Unclassified Borrelia
Biology, 2021 Borreliae of the relapsing fever group (RFG) are heterogenous and can be divided mainly into three groups according to vectors, namely the soft-tick-borne relapsing fever (STBRF) Borreliae, the hard-tick-borne relapsing fever (HTBRF) Borreliae, the louse-
Giusto Trevisan +6 more
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Borrelia recurrentis employs a novel multifunctional surface protein with anti-complement, anti-opsonic and invasive potential to escape innate immunity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Borrelia recurrentis, the etiologic agent of louse-borne relapsing fever in humans, has evolved strategies, including antigenic variation, to evade immune defence, thereby causing severe diseases with high mortality rates.
Sonja Grosskinsky +7 more
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Human complement regulators C4b-binding protein and C1 esterase inhibitor interact with a novel outer surface protein of Borrelia recurrentis. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010 The spirochete Borrelia recurrentis is the causal agent of louse-borne relapsing fever and is transmitted to humans by the infected body louse Pediculus humanus. We have recently demonstrated that the B.
Sonja Grosskinsky +5 more
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Comparative Analysis of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochaetes from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Pathogens, 2023 Despite increasing reports of tick-borne diseases in Africa, remarkably, reports of tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) in Nigeria are lacking. Ornithodoros savignyi from Nigeria have been reported with the relapsing fever Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica ...
Adefolake A. Bankole +6 more
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