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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 +7 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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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.
vida sadeghzadeh
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Postępy Mikrobiologii - Advancements of Microbiology, 2018 Abstract Relapsing fevers are considered, on the one hand, emerging or re-emerging diseases, and on the other hand, they still belong to neglected diseases which attract little attention of researchers and the public in developed countries. Genus Borrelia is divided into two
Stanisława Tylewska-Wierzbanowska +2 more
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Tick-Born Relapsing Fever and Genespecies Diversity of Borrelia: Current Status
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2022 Relevance. Tick-borne relapsing fevers caused by Borrelia species pathogenic for humans are not well understood. Aim of this review is to assess the genetic diversity of Borrelia with special attention to the relapsing fever group and phylogenetically ...
T. A. Chekanova, I. N. Manzeniuk
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Tickborne Relapsing Fever, Jerusalem, Israel, 2004–2018
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 To compare tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) in children and adults in Jerusalem, Israel, we collected data from the medical records of all 92 patients with TBRF during 2004–2018. The 30 children with TBRF had more episodes of fever and lower inflammatory
Saar Hashavya +6 more
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Relapsing Fever Infection Manifesting as Aseptic Meningitis, Texas, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 Tickborne relapsing fever spirochetes are an overlooked cause of disease around the globe. We report a case of tickborne relapsing fever in a patient in Texas, USA, who had a single febrile episode and gastrointestinal and neurologic symptoms. Immunoblot
Lisa Ellis +3 more
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Multiple and Diverse vsp and vlp Sequences in Borrelia miyamotoi, a Hard Tick-Borne Zoonotic Pathogen. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Based on chromosome sequences, the human pathogen Borrelia miyamotoi phylogenetically clusters with species that cause relapsing fever. But atypically for relapsing fever agents, B. miyamotoi is transmitted not by soft ticks but by hard ticks, which also
Alan G Barbour
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"Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica" Detected from a Febrile Traveller Returning to Germany from Vacation in Southern Africa. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 A 26 year-old female patient presented to the Tropical Medicine outpatient unit of the Ludwig Maximilians-University in Munich with febrile illness after returning from Southern Africa, where she contracted a bite by a large mite-like arthropod, most ...
Volker Fingerle +8 more
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Pathogenic New World Relapsing Fever Borrelia in a Myotis Bat, Eastern China, 2015
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We identified Candidatus Borrelia fainii, a human pathogenic bacterium causing New World relapsing fever in a Myotis bat in eastern China. This finding expands knowledge about the geographic distribution of Borrelia spp.
Hui-Ju Han +9 more
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