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Prevalence and Susceptibility Status of Body Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) (Anoplura: Pediculidae) to Deltamethrin in Urmia City, Iran (2024) [PDF]

Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases
Background: The body louse spreads diseases such as epidemic typhus and louse-borne relapsing fever and has shown resistance to various insecticides.
Samira Firooziyan, Ahmadali Enayati, Ehsan Rikhtegar, Tahereh Sadat Asgarian, Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat   +4 more
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The genome of Borrelia recurrentis, the agent of deadly louse-borne relapsing fever, is a degraded subset of tick-borne Borrelia duttonii. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2008
In an effort to understand how a tick-borne pathogen adapts to the body louse, we sequenced and compared the genomes of the recurrent fever agents Borrelia recurrentis and B. duttonii. The 1,242,163-1,574,910-bp fragmented genomes of B. recurrentis and B.
Magali Lescot, Stéphane Audic, Catherine Robert, Thi Tien Nguyen, Guillaume Blanc, Sally J Cutler, Patrick Wincker, Arnaud Couloux, Jean-Michel Claverie, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt   +10 more
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Laboratory diagnosis of tick-borne African relapsing fevers: latest developments [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
In Africa, relapsing fevers caused by ectoparasite-borne Borrelia species are transmitted by ticks, with the exception of Borrelia recurrentis, which is a louse-borne spirochete.
Aurélien eFotso Fotso, Michel eDRANCOURT   +1 more
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Complement inhibition by a unique cluster of immunomodulatory outer surface proteins of Borrelia recurrentis [PDF]

Nature Communications
Borrelia recurrentis, the agent of louse-borne relapsing fever, causes a poverty-associated, infectious disease of high mortality. Here, we identified and characterized five Complement targeting and Host Interacting proteins, ChiA to ChiE displaying ...
Florian Röttgerding, Flavia Reyer, Eva Gerlach, Martin Amborn, Nadine Duschek, Tilman Gunter Schultze, Volker Fingerle, Christopher M. Roome, Michaela Stumpf, Katja Becker, Stefan Rahlfs, Jude Marek Przyborski, Peter Kraiczy, Karin Fritz-Wolf   +13 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, Yi-Tian Fu, Chaoqun Yao, Renfu Shao, Xue-Ling Zhang, De-Yong Duan, Guo-Hua Liu   +6 more
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Detection and Genetic Diversity of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts in Human Lice Based on 16S-rRNA Gene. [PDF]

Environ Microbiol Rep
Candidatus Riesia pediculicola and Wolbachia were found in 79.6% and 95.2% of head lice, and 81.8% and 100% of body lice. Candidatus Riesia pthiripubis and Wolbachia appeared in 41.7% and 75% of pubic lice. Maximum‐likelihood 16S‐rRNA phylogeny revealed substantial heterogeneity within symbiont populations. ABSTRACT Human lice are obligate bloodsucking
Marteau A, Brun S, Izri A, Akhoundi M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

A Case of Jarisch-Herxheimer Reaction After Ceftriaxone Initiation for Lyme Carditis in Postpartum Female. [PDF]

Case Rep Infect Dis
Lyme carditis is a complication occurring in 1%–5% of Lyme disease infections. It can lead to life‐threatening cardiac conduction abnormalities. Treatment with antibiotics may trigger the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction (JHR), an acute inflammatory response to spirochetal lysis. Here, we present a 32‐year‐old postpartum female with complete heart block and
Taylor E, Sujanani S, Khan A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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, Melanie Schott, Christiane Brenner, Sally J Cutler, Markus M Simon, Reinhard Wallich   +5 more
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Relapsing fever in a traveller returning from Senegal [PDF]

, 2021
KEY POINTS • A broad differential should be maintained in the returning traveller with fever, and a detailed travel, social and exposure history elicited to help guide appropriate diagnostics. • Spirochetes seen in routine peripheral blood or malaria
Eckbo, Eric, Wolber, Robert, Yu, Gannon, Charles, Marthe   +3 more
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Louse-borne relapsing fever (Borrelia recurrentis) in asylum seekers from Eritrea, the Netherlands, July 2015 [PDF]

, 2015
Two patients from Eritrea, recently arrived in the Netherlands, presented with fever and were investigated for malaria. Bloodfilms showed spirochetes but no blood parasites.
Sinha, B.; id_orcid, Cornish, D., Braks, M., Grundmann, H., Stienstra, Y., Sinha, B., Wilting, K. R.   +6 more
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