Louse-borne relapsing fever (Borrelia Recurrentis) in an Eritrean refugee arriving in Switzerland, August 2015

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 20, Issue 32, 2015, Pages

  Goldenberger, D ^a   Claas, G J ^a   Bloch Infanger, C ^a   Breidthardt, T ^a   Suter, B ^a   Martinez M ^a   Neumayr, A ^b   Blaich, A ^a   Egli, A ^a   Osthoff, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SMEAR; BORRELIA INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DYSURIA; ERITREAN; FLANK PAIN; FOLLOW UP; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; NAUSEA; PYELONEPHRITIS; REFUGEE; SWITZERLAND; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINALYSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BORRELIA; ERITREA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RELAPSING FEVER; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; CEFTRIAXONE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERITREA; HUMANS; REFUGEES; RELAPSING FEVER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SWITZERLAND; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84939525145     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES2015.20.32.21204     Document Type: Article

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