Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019

We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in a traveler returning to Switzerland from central Asia. After the disease was diagnosed by blood smear microscopy, the causative Borrelia species was confirmed by shotgun metagenomics sequencing. PCR and sequencing technique...

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Main Authors: Veronika Muigg, Helena M.B. Seth-Smith, Daniel Goldenberger, Adrian Egli, Beatrice Nickel, Roland Dürig, Esther Kuenzli, Vladimira Hinic, Andreas Neumayr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Tick-borne relapsing fever
Borrelia persica
central Asia
Borrelia species
shotgun metagenomics
microscopy
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-1771_article

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