Meningoencephalitis complicating relapsing fever in traveler returning from Senegal

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bottieau, Emmanuel ^a   Verbruggen, Elric ^b   Aubry, Camille ^c   Socolovschi, Cristina ^c   Vlieghe, Erika ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OFLOXACIN; BACTERIAL DNA; FLAB FLAGELLIN; FLAGELLIN;

ADULT; AGITATION; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA; BORRELIA CROCIDURAE; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPHOBIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; SIDE EFFECT; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TRAVEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR TYPING; SENEGAL;

ADULT; BORRELIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLAGELLIN; HUMANS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; RELAPSING FEVER; SENEGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRAVEL;

EID: 84858683387     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1804.111771     Document Type: Letter

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