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Tick-borne relapsing fever in pregnancy [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2013 In August 2012, a previously healthy 34-year-old insect ecologist in her 31st week of pregnancy presented to an obstetrics clinic in Toronto, Ontario, with a 2-day history of fever, chills, nausea, vomiting and myalgia.
Haseena, Hussein +2 more
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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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Journal of Vector Borne Diseases, 2023 Lyme disease (LD) is caused by a group of tick-borne bacteria of the genus Borrelia termed Lyme disease Borreliae (LDB). The detection of serum antibodies to specific LDB antigens is widely used to support diagnosis of LD.
Jyotsna S Shah +2 more
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Borrelia miyamotoi: A Comprehensive Review
Pathogens, 2023 Borrelia miyamotoi is an emerging tick-borne pathogen in the Northern Hemisphere and is the causative agent of Borrelia miyamotoi disease (BMD). Borrelia miyamotoi is vectored by the same hard-bodied ticks as Lyme disease Borrelia, yet phylogenetically ...
Dawn W. Cleveland +2 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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Tick-borne Relapsing Fever in Children in the North-west of Iran, Qazvin
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 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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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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No-touch management in tick infestation of periocular skin
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. Case Reports, 2022 Ixodidae ticks are vectors of Lyme borreliosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tick-borne encephalitis, and relapsing fever. We present a case of eyelid tick infestation in a 49-year-old patient for 1 week.
Vaisna Gopi +2 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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