Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Borreliosis, Rural Senegal

Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Borreliosis, Rural Senegal

Detecting spirochetes remains challenging in cases of African tick-borne relapsing fever. Using real-time PCR specific for the 16S rRNA Borrelia gene, we found 27 (13%) of 206 samples from febrile patients in rural Senegal to be positive, whereas thick blood smear examinations conducted at dispensar...

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Main Authors: Philippe Parola, Georges Diatta, Cristina Socolovschi, Oleg Mediannikov, Adama Tall, Hubert Bassene, Jean François Trape, Didier Raoult
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011-05-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Borrelia
Senegal
fever
borreliosis
Ornithodoros
ticks
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/5/10-0573_article

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