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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, Southern Spain, 2004–2015 [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 Surveillance data indicate that tickborne diseases are substantial and increasing global public health problems (1). Various pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and helminthes, are transmitted from ticks to vertebrates (2).
Luis Castilla-Guerra +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 +6 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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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 Diseases and Pregnancy: A Narrative Review Evaluating Pregnancy Complications Caused by Tick-Borne Diseases [PDF]
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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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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Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2005 INTRODUCTION Borrelial diseases are an important cause of undiagnosed fever. Improved standards of living and better sanitary conditions have almost completely controlled louse borne relapsing fever; however sporadic cases of tick borne relapsing ...
Kamran Aziz +3 more
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Population Structure of East African Relapsing Fever Borrelia spp.
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2010 Differentiation of endemic East African tick-borne relapsing fever Borrelia duttonii spirochetes from epidemic louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) B. recurrentis spirochetes into different species has been questioned.
Sally J. Cutler +2 more
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Borrelia hispanica Relapsing Fever, Morocco [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 We found that 20.5% of patients with an unexplained fever in northwestern Morocco had tick-borne relapsing fever. Molecular detection specific for the 16S rRNA gene identified Borrelia hispanica.
M’hammed Sarih +8 more
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