TWO CASES OF RELAPSING FEVER.

Notes on Some Cases of Relapsing Fever

Railivay Hospital, Hubli, M. and S. M. Railway. Th? following cases of relapsing fever were admitted to this hospital during a local epidemic in August to October 1923. Some of them might have been mistaken for plague, had not the diagnosis been confirmed in each instance by the finding of spirochetes in blood films:? Case 1, aet. 27.?Admitted to hospital for continuous fever for 6 days, slight...

On Two Varieties of Relapsing Fever Spirochætal Infection in India

Familial Mediterranean Fever: Review of Literature and Report of Two Cases

Familial Mediterranean fever, an autosomal recessive disorder, is a member of the periodic fever syndromes, and considered to be the most common cause of recurrent febrile episodes in children. It is important to understand the disorder as familial Mediterranean fever falls on a spectrum of various presentations; the recurrent episodes of familial Mediterranean fever may be so severe that the q...

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...

Tick-borne relapsing fever.

Tick-borne relapsing fever is characterized by recurring fevers separated by afebrile periods and is accompanied by nonspecific constitutional symptoms. It occurs after a patient has been bitten by a tick infected with a Borrelia spirochete. The diagnosis of tick-borne relapsing fever requires an accurate characterization of the fever and a thorough medical, social, and travel history of the pa...