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Serological evidence of louse-borne relapsing fever in northern Kenya

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Background: Tick- and louse-borne relapsing fever are highly-neglected, vector-borne diseases caused by diverse Borrelia species. Presently, there are no data available on the endemicity of tick- and louse-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in Kenya. Here,
Flavia Reyer, Martyna Olesiuk, Florian Röttgerding, Volker Fingerle, Abdulrahman Adamu, Dan Waithiru, John Njeru, Peter Kraiczy   +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, Oakes M, Algranati M, Mansoor AM.   +3 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever [PDF]

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2008
Each year, many residents of and visitors to endemic regions of the western United States are exposed to the tick vectors of tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF), Ornithodoros hermsi, Ornithodoros turicata, or Ornithodoros parkeri. This disease is remarkable because the human host is unaware of the tick bite, usually becomes very ill, may experience an ...
Mark S, Dworkin, Tom G, Schwan, Donald E, Anderson, Stephanie M, Borchardt   +3 more
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Tick-borne relapsing fever in a premature infant

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, 1985
Relapsing fever is caused by the Borrelia species of spirochetes. Louse-born epidemics of the disease may occur but the endemic disease is usually transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected tick (Ornithodorus). Transplacental infection was suggested more than 75 years ago (1) but has been rarely documented (2).
Brasseur, Daniel
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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, Larios OE, Parkins MD, Vaughan SD.   +3 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Dogs. [PDF]

J Vet Intern Med, 2016
Abstract Background In the United States, Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (TBRF) in dogs is caused by the spirochete bacteria Borrelia turicatae and Borrelia hermsii, transmitted by Ornithodoros spp. ticks.
Piccione J, Levine GJ, Duff CA, Kuhlman GM, Scott KD, Esteve-Gassent MD.   +5 more
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Tick-Born Relapsing Fever and Genespecies Diversity of Borrelia: Current Status

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2022
Relevance. Tick-borne relapsing fevers caused by Borrelia species pathogenic for humans are not well understood. Aim of this review is to assess the genetic diversity of Borrelia with special attention to the relapsing fever group and phylogenetically ...
T. A. Chekanova, I. N. Manzeniuk
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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, Adrienne, Showler, Darrell H S, Tan   +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, Michael Pritsch, Martin Wächtler, Gabriele Margos, Sabine Ruske, Jette Jung, Thomas Löscher, Clemens Wendtner, Andreas Wieser   +8 more
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Epidemiology of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Endemic Area, Spain. [PDF]

Emerg Infect Dis, 2020
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is caused by spirochetes of Borrelia bacteria. We collected data on all TBRF cases in a TBRF-endemic area in southwest Spain during 1994-2016.
Domínguez MC, Vergara S, Gómez MC, Roldán ME.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources