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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 ...
Job E. Lopez +3 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 ...
Adefolake A. Bankole +6 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.
Emilie Talagrand-Reboul +6 more
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Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Borreliosis, Rural Senegal [PDF]
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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Tick-borne relapsing fever. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2020 A previously healthy 58-year-old man presented to an emergency department with a 3-day history of intermittent drenching sweats with rigours, diarrhoea, fatigue and decreased oral intake. These symptoms began a week after the patient returned from a summer vacation to a rural community in ...
Aviles ES +3 more
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Tick-borne Relapsing Fever in Children in the North-west of Iran, Qazvin [PDF]
Prague Medical Report, 2015 Relapsing fever is caused by the Borrelia species of spirochetes. Louse-borne epidemics of the disease may happen but the endemic disease is generally transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected tick (Ornithodorus).
Parviz Ayazi +4 more
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A case of tick-borne relapsing fever in pregnancy. [PDF]
Can Commun Dis Rep, 2020 Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is an infection caused by Borrelia spirochetes. In North America, Borrelia hermsii is the most common cause for TBRF. This vector-borne disease is transmitted by Ornithodoros hermsi, a soft-bodied tick found in high altitudes in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. Once bitten by the tick and infected by
Lam JC +3 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 +5 more
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Tick-borne Relapsing Fever and Borrelia hermsii, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 The primary cause of tick-borne relapsing fever in western North America is Borrelia hermsii, a rodent-associated spirochete transmitted by the fast-feeding soft tick Ornithodoros hermsi. We describe a patient who had an illness consistent with relapsing
Tom G. Schwan +8 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseTicks are vectors of public health concern because the pathogens they transmit can cause detrimental diseases in humans. Lyme disease, tick-borne relapsing fever, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick-borne encephalitis ...
Michael W. Curtis, Job E. Lopez
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