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Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochetes in the Americas [PDF]
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 ...
Nolan Melissa +2 more
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Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2018 Relapsing fever still remains a neglected disease and little is known on its reservoir, tick vector and physiopathology in the vertebrate host. The disease occurs in temperate as well as tropical countries.
Pierre H Boyer +2 more
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Comparative Analysis of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochaetes From Ethiopia and Nigeria [PDF]
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 ...
Gezahegne Mamo Kassa +2 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 DiseasesTick-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 +7 more
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Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020 We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in a traveler returning to Switzerland from central Asia. After the disease was diagnosed by blood smear microscopy, the causative Borrelia species was confirmed by shotgun ...
Veronika Muigg +8 more
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Veterinary Sciences, 2016 In the first decades of the 20th century, scientific papers were published suggesting the presence of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Colombia. As a contribution, we present some historical aspects referring to this topic.
Alvaro A Faccini-Martínez
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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.
Robert J. Fischer +2 more
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Exposure in Horses to Human Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia persica, Israel, 2025 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious DiseasesHuman tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica is common in western Asia. A survey of 301 horses in Israel revealed 9.96% seropositivity toward B. persica antigens; 1 horse (0.33%) was also PCR positive for B. persica DNA.
Dor Shwartz +5 more
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Tick‐borne relapsing fever as a potential veterinary medical problem [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2018 Tick‐borne relapsing fever (TBRF) caused by the bacteria Borrelia, is poorly documented in veterinary medicine. Given the widespread presence of the soft tick vectors – Ornithodoros and the recently discovered hard tick vectors, as well as their close ...
Nusirat Elelu
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Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever and Pregnancy Outcome in Rural Tanzania
Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 1997 Objective. To assess the impact of tick‐borne relapsing fever (TBRF) on the outcome of pregnancy. Design. Case control study of 137 pregnant women (cases) and 120 non‐pregnant women (controls) with TBRF between 1985 and 1995. Setting. A rural hospital in
Jos van Roosmalen
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