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Pathogenesis of Relapsing Fever. [PDF]

Curr Issues Mol Biol, 2021
Relapsing fever (RF) is caused by several species of Borrelia; all, except two species, are transmitted to humans by soft (argasid) ticks. The species B. recurrentis is transmitted from one human to another by the body louse, while B. miyamotoi is vectored by hard-bodied ixodid tick species.
Lopez J, Hovius JW, Bergström S.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochetes in the Americas

Veterinary Sciences, 2016
Relapsing fever spirochetes are tick- and louse-borne pathogens that primarily afflict those in impoverished countries. Historically the pathogens have had a significant impact on public health, yet currently they are often overlooked because of the ...
Job E Lopez, Melissa Garcia, Sérgio E Bermudez   +2 more
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Borreliae Part 2: Borrelia Relapsing Fever Group and Unclassified Borrelia [PDF]

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, Marina Cinco, Sara Trevisini, Nicola di Meo, Maurizio Ruscio, Patrizia Forgione, Serena Bonin   +6 more
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CD55 Facilitates Immune Evasion by Borrelia crocidurae, an Agent of Relapsing Fever [PDF]

mBio, 2022
Relapsing fever, caused by diverse Borrelia spirochetes, is prevalent in many parts of the world and causes significant morbidity and mortality. To investigate the pathoetiology of relapsing fever, we performed a high-throughput screen of Borrelia ...
Gunjan Arora, Geoffrey E. Lynn, Xiaotian Tang, Connor E. Rosen, Dieuwertje Hoornstra, Andaleeb Sajid, Joppe W. Hovius, Noah W. Palm, Aaron M. Ring, Erol Fikrig   +9 more
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Endemic Foci of the Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia crocidurae in Mali, West Africa, and the Potential for Human Infection

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012
BackgroundTick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes are maintained in endemic foci that involve a diversity of small mammals and argasid ticks in the genus Ornithodoros.
Jennifer M Anderson, Job E Lopez, Robert J Fischer   +2 more
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Novel approaches for the serodiagnosis of louse-borne relapsing fever [PDF]

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, John Njeru, Elif Schlüfter, Andreas Latz, Rouzbeh Mahdavi, Ulrich Steinhoff, Sally J. Cutler, Silke Besier, Volkhard A. J. Kempf, Volker Fingerle, Peter Kraiczy   +10 more
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Serological evidence of Borrelia turicatae in Raccoons (Procyon lotor) from an endemic focus of tick-borne relapsing fever in Mexico. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Tick-borne relapsing fever is a neglected and overlooked disease. In Mexico, numerous historical reports document the distribution of Ornithodoros turicata, the vector of Borrelia turicatae, as well as human cases of infection.
Jose A Hernández Martínez, Valeria Leal-Sepúlveda, Alan A Zavala-Norzagaray, Emilio Rendón-Franco, César P Ley-Quiñonez, Patricio Pellegrini-Hernández, Job E Lopez, J Antonio Ibarra   +7 more
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RELAPSES IN SCARLET FEVER. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1903
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Powers, C. H., Hodgson, J. F.
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Attenuation of relapsing fever neuroborreliosis in mice by IL-17A blockade [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
Meihui Cheng, Kishore R Alugupalli, Hongqi Liu   +2 more
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Relapsing Fever

Buffalo medical and surgical journal
Snowden J, Yarrarapu SNS, Nguyen AD, Oliver TI.   +3 more
europepmc   +7 more sources