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Blood smear examination matters: an incidental case of tick-borne relapsing fever in a traveller returning from Senegal

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Relapsing fever is caused by various species of Borrelia bacteria and is traditionally categorized into louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) and tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF).
Alessandro Pavesi, Andrea Ciccarone, Jacopo Logiudice, Benedetta Fioretti, Angelica Lenzi, Maurizio Gulletta, Stefano Di Bella, Cristina Bertasio, Nadia Vicari, Lina Rachele Tomasoni, Francesco Castelli, Benedetta Rossi   +11 more
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Comparative genomics of the Western Hemisphere soft tick-borne relapsing fever borreliae highlights extensive plasmid diversity. [PDF]

BMC Genomics, 2022
Kneubehl AR, Krishnavajhala A, Leal SM, Replogle AJ, Kingry LC, Bermúdez SE, Labruna MB, Lopez JE.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Characterization of Immunological Responses to Borrelia Immunogenic Protein A (BipA), a Species-Specific Antigen for North American Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr, 2022
Curtis MW, Krishnavajhala A, Kneubehl AR, Embers ME, Gettings JR, Yabsley MJ, Lopez JE.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tick-borne relapsing fever Borreliosis, a major public health problem overlooked in Senegal. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2021
Ndiaye EHI, Diouf FS, Ndiaye M, Bassene H, Raoult D, Sokhna C, Parola P, Diatta G.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Novel Relapsing Fever Spirochete in Bat Tick

, 2008
Tick-borne relapsing fever in western North America is a zoonosis caused by spirochetes in the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by argasid ticks of the genus Ornithodoros (1).
Piesman, Joseph, Merry E. Schrumpf, Ullmann, Amy J., Loftis, Amanda D., Tom G. Schwan, Raffel, Sandra J., Amanda D. Loftis, Joseph Piesman, Sandra J. Raffel, Schrumpf, Merry E., Amy J. Ullmann, James S. Gill, Gill, James S., Schwan, Tom G.   +13 more
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Laboratory findings in tick-borne relapsing fever

Journal of Clinical Research & Governance, 2013
Purpose: To investigate some laboratory findings in tick-borne  relapsing fever. Methods: A large screening program was conducted in Ardabil Province of Iran to screen 2201 patients who referred with fever to health houses and clinics in Khalkhal, Kosar and Nir districts for a positive smear of tick-borne  relapsing fever.
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[Tick-borne relapsing fever morbidity in Namangan].

Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parazitarnye bolezni, 1993
The authors discuss the incidence of tick-borne relapsing fever in the town of Namangan (Uzbekistan) in 1976-1991 and the possible sites of human infection; the agent, Ornithodoros papillipes, has never been detected over this period. Analysis of many-year and seasonal time course of the disease incidence, of the age of the patients and their residence,
Z I, Abidov, I S, Vasil'eva, N R, Rakhimov, V P, Gutova, A M, Parpiev   +4 more
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Relapsing Fever in Sichili

, 1984
Tick borne relapsing feverBetween 1 December, 1982 and 30 November, 1983, 274 cases of tick borne relapsing fever were found in Sichili. Mainly children were affected and the incidence was lower during the cold season.
Coene, J.
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Do Tick Attachment Times Vary between Different Tick-Pathogen Systems?

, 2017
Improvements to risk assessments are needed to enhance our understanding of tick-borne disease epidemiology. We review tick vectors and duration of tick attachment required for pathogen transmission for the following pathogens/toxins and diseases: (1 ...
Charles Apperson, Ricky Langley, Stephanie Richards, Elizabeth Watson   +3 more
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Spatial distribution of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in central Hokkaido, Japan and associated ecological factors revealed by intensive short-term survey in 2024.

PLoS ONE
Tick-borne pathogens are transmitted by tick bites to cause infectious diseases in humans and domestic animals. To anticipate tick-borne disease occurrence, a high resolution understanding of infection risk distribution and its ecological drivers is ...
Mebuki Ito, Yuma Ohari, Mai Kishimoto, Keita Matsuno   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source