The quantitative buffy coat (QBC) parasite detection method is a sensitive and specific tool for the diagnosis of malaria parasites. It is also useful for the diagnoses of other hemoparasites, including Trypanosoma, Babesia, and Leptospira. We report a case of relapsing fever diagnosed by this technique in a short-term traveler from Senegal. The diagnosis was confirmed by the standard Giemsa he...

Following World War I, louse-borne diseases reached epidemic proportions in Europe. Particularly in Russia, in the years 1920 lo 1922, when famine drove many people from tlie Volga region into Leningrad and other cities, relapsing fever and typhus became extremely prevalent. It was soon observed tliat many patients with relapsing fever developed an unusually severe disease, attended by high fat...

Some Borrelia species associated with Lyme disease bind the complement-regulatory protein factor H (fH), a process that may aid in immune evasion. In this report we demonstrate that some Borrelia species associated with relapsing fever bind fH, but not those associated with avian borreliosis and epizootic bovine abortion. Cell-bound fH was also found to mediate cleavage of exogenously supplied ...

IN RAJPOOTANA IN 1868 & 1869* By E. T. LYONS, Surgeon, 28th Regiment, Punjab Infantry. Within the last decade, since the subject of the prevalence of relapsing fever has been discussed in India, writers, who deny the existence of the disease in this country, have referred to the circumstance that in recent times no epidemic of relapsing fever has been recorded as co-existing with the prevalence...