RELAPSING FEVERS

Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases

1 Early Bacterial Virulence: Borrelia Group, Université de Strasbourg, Facultés de Médecine et de Pharmacie, CHRU Strasbourg, Fédération de Médecine Translationnelle de Strasbourg, VBB EA 7290, Strasbourg, France, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, 3 Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, CIRAD BIOS, UMR15 CIRAD/Institut N...

Multiplex Real-Time PCR Diagnostic of Relapsing Fevers in Africa

BACKGROUND In Africa, relapsing fever borreliae are neglected arthropod-borne pathogens causing mild to deadly septicemia and miscarriage. The closely related Borrelia crocidurae, Borrelia duttonii, Borrelia recurrentis and Borrelia hispanica are rarely diagnosed at the species level, hampering refined epidemiological and clinical knowledge of the relapsing fevers. It would be hugely beneficial...

Laboratory Diagnosis of Tick-Borne African Relapsing Fevers: Latest Developments

In Africa, relapsing fevers caused by ectoparasite-borne Borrelia species are transmitted by ticks, with the exception of Borrelia recurrentis, which is a louse-borne spirochete. These tropical diseases are responsible for mild to deadly spirochetemia. Cultured Borrelia crocidurae, Borrelia duttonii, and Borrelia hispanica circulate alongside at least six species that have not yet been cultured...

Malarial Fevers

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On Fevers