Relapsing Fever in a Recent Visitor to Africa

Relapsing fever in Africa.

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever, a Neglected Cause of Fever in Fars Province

Tick-borne relapsing fever is an endemic disease in some parts of Iran. Borellia persica, the most common cause of this disease in Iran, has a wide geographic distribution and is present in Alborz and Zagros mountain chains.Here we report a 16–year-old male patient who presented with two episodes of fever within 15 days. He had a history of few overnight stays in a cave of mountainous area in F...

Multispacer Sequence Typing Relapsing Fever Borreliae in Africa

BACKGROUND In Africa, relapsing fevers are neglected arthropod-borne infections caused by closely related Borrelia species. They cause mild to deadly undifferentiated fever particularly severe in pregnant women. Lack of a tool to genotype these Borrelia organisms limits knowledge regarding their reservoirs and their epidemiology. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Genome sequence analysis of Borr...

Relapsing fever in young refugees from East Africa

We read with interest the letter by Cutuli et al. [1] describing a case of severe co-infection by Leptospira spp. and Borrelia recurrentis in a young female refugee from East Africa. We would like to comment on several issues raised by their paper. First, the authors state “nits were present on her scalp...”. In our opinion, this sentence may mislead readers as meaning that “head lice” (Pedicul...

Relapsing Fever, a Disappearing Cause of Fever and Maternal Death in Sengerema, Tanzania, East Africa.

OBJECTIVE To study the incidence of tick borne relapsing fever (TBRF) during the last 50 years, once like malaria an endemic disease in Sengerema, Tanzania. DESIGN By analyzing the annual reports, focusing on the number of admissions, maternal deaths, blood smears of patients with fever for Borrelia. SETTING Sengerema district, Tanzania. SUBJECT Admissions in Sengerema Hospital due to TBR...