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. 2005 Mar;11(3):474-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1103.040506.

Identifying relapsing fever Borrelia, Senegal

Hamoud Brahim  1 , Jean David Perrier-Gros-Claude, Danielle Postic, Guy Baranton, Ronan Jambou
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Identifying relapsing fever Borrelia, Senegal

Hamoud Brahim et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Mar.

Abstract

We describe a nested polymerase chain reaction for the identification of Borrelia species from serum of patients with unidentified fevers. This technique, based on single nucleotide polymorphisms of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, was used to test blood samples from 7,750 patients, 33 of whom were diagnosed with spirochete infections. Borrelia crocidurae was the only species identified.

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