Identifying Relapsing Fever Borrelia, Senegal

Brahim, Hamoud; Perrier-Gros-Claude, Jean David; Postic, Danielle; Baranton, Guy; Jambou, Ronan

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Identifying Relapsing Fever Borrelia, Senegal

Published Date:

Mar 2005

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Emerg Infect Dis. 11(3):474-475.

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Brahim, Hamoud ; Perrier-Gros-Claude, Jean David ; Postic, Danielle ; Baranton, Guy ; Jambou, Ronan ;

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We describe a nested polymerase chain reaction for the identification of Borrelia species from serum of patients with unidentified fevers. This technique, based on single nucleotide polymorphisms of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene, was used to test blood samples from 7,750 patients, 33 of whom were diagnosed with spirochete infections. Borrelia crocidurae was the only species identified.

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

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