Identification of Relapsing Fever Spirochaetes
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Many different opinions are observed if one compares the denomination of the species of relapsing fever spirochaetes by different authors. Brumpt (1) describes 14 different species in his extended Parasitology and Stitts (2) 18, but he admits the possibility of synonyms among them. Napier (3) mentions that the application of names of the countries in which the spirochaetes occur implicates the fact that the diseases are caused by different species in each of these countries but there is no justification for any such assumption. It seems probable that there are 2 species, Spirochaete recurrentis transmitted by lice and Spirochaete duttoni which is the causal organism of the tick transmitted relapsing fever. He regards as synonyms: obervieieri, carteri, berbera, aegyptica, novyi and recurrentis, all transmitted by lice. Moreover, the following tick borne spirochaetes are syno-
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