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Tick-borne relapsing fever borreliosis, rural senegal.
Philippe Parola, Georges Diatta, Cristina Socolovschi, Oleg Mediannikov, Adama Tall, Hubert Bassene, Jean François Trape, Didier Raoult
Emerging infectious diseases 2011 MaySizes of these terms reflect their relevance to your search.
Detecting spirochetes remains challenging in cases of African tick-borne relapsing fever. Using real-time PCR specific for the 16S rRNA Borrelia gene, we found 27 (13%) of 206 samples from febrile patients in rural Senegal to be positive, whereas thick blood smear examinations conducted at dispensaries identified only 4 (2%) as positive.
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Philippe Parola, Georges Diatta, Cristina Socolovschi, Oleg Mediannikov, Adama Tall, Hubert Bassene, Jean François Trape, Didier Raoult. Tick-borne relapsing fever borreliosis, rural senegal. Emerging infectious diseases. 2011 May;17(5):883-5
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