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. 2011 May;17(5):883-5.
doi: 10.3201/eid1705.100573.

Tick-borne relapsing fever borreliosis, rural senegal

Philippe Parola  1 , Georges Diatta, Cristina Socolovschi, Oleg Mediannikov, Adama Tall, Hubert Bassene, Jean François Trape, Didier Raoult
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Tick-borne relapsing fever borreliosis, rural senegal

Philippe Parola et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 May.

Abstract

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 dispensaries identified only 4 (2%) as positive.

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A) Dielmo village in Senegal. B) Health and clinical research station in Dielmo, where a longitudinal prospective study for long-term investigation of host–parasite associations has been conducted since 1990.
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