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: Parola, Philippe, Diatta, Georges, Socolovschi, Cristina, Mediannikov, Oleg, Tall, Adama, Bassene, Hubert, Trape, Jean François, Raoult, Didier
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321757/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21529402
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1705.100573
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