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Case Reports
. 2005 Nov;11(11):1801-3.
doi: 10.3201/eid1111.050616.

Imported tickborne relapsing fever, France

Benjamin Wyplosz, Liliana Mihaila-Amrouche, Marie-Therese Baixench, Marie-Laure Bigel, Liliane Berardi-Grassias, Camille Fontaine, Michele Hornstein, Arezki Izri, Guy Baranton, Daniele Postic
Case Reports

Imported tickborne relapsing fever, France

Benjamin Wyplosz et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Nov.
No abstract available

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Unweighted pair group with mathematical average rooted tree of complete sequences of the Borrelia 16S rRNA gene. Sequences from databanks are indicated by their accession numbers.
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