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RECURRING OR RELAPSING FEVER. [PDF]

The Lancet
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A case report of relapsing fever

Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology, 2008
Relapsing fever is an acute febrile illness caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia. The high fevers of presenting patients spontaneously abate and then recur. Here we report a 50-year-old woman having relapsing fever associated with thrombocytopenia.
Aher Atul, Shah Harshada, Rastogi Vichal, Tukaram Prabhu, Choudhury Reshmi   +4 more
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Tick-borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia hermsii, Montana

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2003
Five persons contracted tick-borne relapsing fever after staying in a cabin in western Montana. Borrelia hermsii was isolated from the blood of two patients, and Ornithodoros hermsi ticks were collected from the cabin, the first demonstration of this ...
Tom G. Schwan, Paul F. Policastro, Zachary Miller, Robert L. Thompson, Todd Damrow, James E. Keirans   +5 more
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African relapsing fever borreliae genomospecies revealed by comparative genomics

Frontiers in Public Health, 2014
Background:Relapsing fever borreliae are vector-borne bacteria responsible for febrile infection in humans in North America, Africa, Asia and in the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.
Haitham eElbir, Laurent eAbi-Rached, Pierre ePontarotti, Niayz eYoosuf, Michel eDRANCOURT   +4 more
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Late-Relapsing Hepatitis after Yellow Fever

Viruses, 2020
One patient presented hyporexia, asthenia, adynamia, and jaundice two months after acute yellow fever (YF) onset; plus laboratory tests indicating hepatic cytolysis and a rebound of alanine and aspartate transaminases, and total and direct bilirubin ...
Izabela Maurício Rezende, Leonardo Soares Pereira, Jordana Rodrigues Barbosa Fradico, Marcelo Antônio Pascoal Xavier, Pedro Augusto Alves, Ana Carolina Campi-Azevedo, Elaine Speziali, Lívia Zignago Moreira dos Santos, Natalia Soares Albuquerque, Indiara Penido, Tayrine Araujo Santos, Ana Paula Dinis Ano Bom, Andrea Marques Vieira da Silva, Camilla Bayma Fernandes, Carlos Eduardo Calzavara, Erna Geessien Kroon, Olindo Assis Martins-Filho, Andréa Teixeira-Carvalho, Betânia Paiva Drumond   +18 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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Vector Interactions and Molecular Adaptations of Lyme Disease and Relapsing Fever Spirochetes Associated with Transmission by Ticks

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
Pathogenic spirochetes in the genus Borrelia are transmitted primarily by two families of ticks. The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted by the slow-feeding ixodid tick Ixodes scapularis, whereas the relapsing fever spirochete ...
Tom G. Schwan, Joseph Piesman
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Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Borreliosis, Rural Senegal

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2011
Detecting spirochetes remains challenging in cases of African tick-borne relapsing fever. Using real-time PCR specific for the 16S rRNA Borrelia gene, we found 27 (13%) of 206 samples from febrile patients in rural Senegal to be positive, whereas thick ...
Philippe Parola, Georges Diatta, Cristina Socolovschi, Oleg Mediannikov, Adama Tall, Hubert Bassene, Jean François Trape, Didier Raoult   +7 more
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Borrelia crocidurae Infection in Acutely Febrile Patients, Senegal

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
As malaria cases in Africa decline, other causes of acute febrile illness are being explored. To determine incidence of Borrelia crocidurae infection during June 2010–October 2011, we collected 1,566 blood specimens from febrile patients in Senegal ...
Oleg Mediannikov, Cristina Socolovschi, Hubert Bassene, Georges Diatta, Pavel Ratmanov, Florence Fenollar, Cheikh Sokhna, Didier Raoult   +7 more
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Effective factors causing relapsing fever in clients referring to health and ‎treatment centers in Khalkhal city

Journal of Holistic Nursing and Midwifery, 2006
Introduction: A group of acute infection diseases are called Relapsing fever.‎ Clinically it involves a circular period of fever and lack of fever.
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