Endemic Foci of the Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia crocidurae in Mali, West Africa, and the Potential for Human Infection

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Schwan, Tom G ^a   Anderson, Jennifer M ^b   Lopez, Job E ^a,d   Fischer, Robert J ^a   Raffel, Sandra J ^a   McCoy, Brandi N ^a   Safronetz, David ^a   Sogoba, Nafomon ^c   Maïga, Ousmane ^c   Traoré, Sékou F ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c Sociétés   (Mali)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ECTOPARASITE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MALI; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORNITHODOROS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RAT; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOOD; BORRELIA; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HUMANS; MALI; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORNITHODOROS; PREVALENCE; RELAPSING FEVER; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHREWS;

EID: 84870730013     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001924     Document Type: Article

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