New concepts for the old challenge of African relapsing fever borreliosis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 400-406

  Cutler, S J ^a   Abdissa, A ^b   Trape, J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Louse borne relapsing fever; Spirochaetes; Tick borne relapsing fever

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TYPHUS;

ARGASIDAE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA CROCIDURAE; BORRELIA DUTTONII; BORRELIA RECURRENTIS; IXODIDA; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; ORNITHODOROS SONRAI; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; SPIROCHAETES;

EID: 65949086817     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02819.x     Document Type: Review

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