relapsing fever
Relapsing fever borreliosis
... The JHR was first described by Adolf Jarisch in 1895 and later by Karl Herxheimer in 1902, in relation to another spirochetal infection, syphilis, but this also occurs in approximately 5% of relapsing fever ...
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GlpQ: an antigen for serological discrimination between relapsing fever and Lyme borreliosis
... the relapsing fever spirochetes and ...from relapsing fever cases, regardless of the causative agent or geographic location, and differentiate such cases from those suspected of being Lyme ...
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Isolation and Characterization of Borrelia hermsii Associated with Two Foci of Tick Borne Relapsing Fever in California
... Relapsing fever, caused by the spirochete Borrelia hermsii and transmitted by the soft tick Ornithodoros hermsi, is endemic in many rural mountainous areas of ...of relapsing fever associated ...
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Phylogenetic Analysis of the Spirochetes Borrelia parkeri and Borrelia turicatae and the Potential for Tick Borne Relapsing Fever in Florida
... ing the potential for tick-borne relapsing fever in humans and other animals in Florida, where the infected dogs were first identified (13). These spirochetemic dogs were infected 31 months apart at two ...
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A NEW CASE OF LOUSE-BORNE RELAPSING FEVER IN SICILY: CASE REPORT AND MINI REVIEW
... In addition, PCR targeting 16S rRNA was used to confirm the presence of spirochetes and to identify the species level, because it is problematic to discriminate between LBRF and tick-borne relapsing fever ...
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Phylogenetic Analysis of a Virulent Borrelia Species Isolated from Patients with Relapsing Fever
... with relapsing fever and from ticks in Spain that is designated the Spanish relapsing fever (SRF) ...other relapsing fever Borrelia ...a relapsing fever patient in ...
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Epidemiological Study of Endemic Relapsing Fever in Hamadan Province, Western Iran
... of relapsing fever was similar in both male and female genders, but its prevalence showed a reduction in the number of victims by the increase of ...
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The plasminogen activation system enhances brain and heart invasion in murine relapsing fever borreliosis
... The PAS was not important in all phases of this multi- systemic infection. Clearly it did not affect the penetration of the organisms from the cutaneous tissues to the blood, because the levels of spirochetemia were ...
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Multiplex 5′ Nuclease Quantitative PCR for Diagnosis of Relapsing Fever in a Large Tanzanian Cohort
... asymptomatic relapsing fever as an ancillary study to that of mass treatment with azithromycin for trachoma (Partnership for the Rapid Elimination of Trachoma ...
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Host associations and genomic diversity of Borrelia hermsii in an endemic focus of tick borne relapsing fever in western North America
... contracted relapsing fever while attending a family reunion at a cabin on Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake, Lake County, Montana [13, ...tick-borne relapsing fever in the inland northwest of ...
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Genetic characterization of the human relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi in vectors and animal reservoirs of Lyme disease spirochetes in France
... ing fever in humans and which are transmitted by both, soft and hard ticks ...the relapsing fever group, is transmitted by the same Ixodes species that also transmits Borrelia species from the Lyme ...
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Equine Abortion Associated with the Borrelia parkeri B turicatae Tick Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochete Group
... competent Escherichia coli (TOPO TA cloning kit for sequencing; Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.). Both strands of the cloned fragment were sequenced by automated fluorescent cycle sequencing (per- formed by Davis ...
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The relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi is cultivable in a modified Kelly Pettenkofer medium, and is resistant to human complement
... the culture methods employed for other relapsing fever and B. burgdorferi sensu lato spirochetes. We have tested multiple culture media modifications and here we describe one in particular that allowed us ...
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Complement factor H binding by different Lyme disease and relapsing fever Borrelia in animals and human
... Findings: Affinity ligand binding experiments, 2-D electrophoresis, and protein identification and peptide de novo sequencing based on mass spectrometry, revealed novel fH putative binding proteins of Lyme- and ...
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Louse borne relapsing fever – report of four cases in Switzerland, June December 2015
... louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) caused by Borrelia recurrentis has been restricted to East Africa for many decades with most cases reported from Ethiopia [1, ...with fever and body pain resembling ...
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of High Risk Populations on Louse- Borne Relapsing Fever in Bahir Dar City, North-West Ethiopia
... Relapsing fever (RF) is a vector borne disease caused by Borrelia species (body lice in case of louse- borne relapsing fever (LBRF) and soft ticks in case of tick- borne relapsing ...
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Polymerase chain reaction primers and probes derived from flagellin gene sequences for specific detection of the agents of Lyme disease and North American relapsing fever
... Polymerase Chain Reaction Primers and Probes Derived from Flagellin Gene Sequences for Specific Detection of the Agents of Lyme Disease and North American Relapsing Fever ROGER N.. PICKE[r] ...
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Serodiagnosis of Louse Borne Relapsing Fever with Glycerophosphodiester Phosphodiesterase (GlpQ) fromBorrelia recurrentis
... of fever (13, 56), sometimes com- plicated by bleeding associated with thrombocytopenia ...all relapsing fevers, including both louse-borne and tick-borne forms, has relied on the identification of ...
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Population Structure of East African Relapsing Fever Borrelia spp
... elapsing fever is a recurrent febrile infection caused by various Borrelia spirochetes transmitted either by lice (epidemic relapsing fever) or by ticks (endemic relaps- ing ...fever). ...
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Possibilities for Relapsing Fever Reemergence
... Relapsing fever Borrelia infections have attracted little attention in recent years; however, where endemic, these infections still result in considerable illness and ...exotic relapsing fever ...
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