Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019

Muigg, Veronika; Seth-Smith, Helena M.B.; Goldenberger, Daniel; Egli, Adrian; Nickel, Beatrice; Dürig, Roland; Kuenzli, Esther; Hinic, Vladimira; Neumayr, Andreas

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Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019

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Apr 2020
By Muigg, Veronika ; Seth-Smith, Helena M.B. ; Goldenberger, Daniel ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Muigg, Veronika ; Seth-Smith, Helena M.B. ; Goldenberger, Daniel ; Egli, Adrian ; Nickel, Beatrice ; Dürig, Roland ; Kuenzli, Esther ; Hinic, Vladimira ; Neumayr, Andreas
Description:

We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in a traveler returning to Switzerland from central Asia. After the disease was diagnosed by blood smear microscopy, the causative Borrelia species was confirmed by shotgun metagenomics sequencing. PCR and sequencing techniques provide highly sensitive diagnostic tools superior to microscopy.
Subjects:

Borrelia Humans Relapsing Fever
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 26(4):824-826
Pubmed ID:

32187006
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC7101097
Document Type:

Journal Article
Genre:

Letter
Place as Subject:

Asia ; Switzerland
Volume:

26
Issue:

4
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:59252523082a02e117d525a755f31f2c19932e7708d57aa9d9261b313e38ace3
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