Abstract
Detecting spirochetes remains challenging in cases of African tick-borne relapsing fever. Using real-time PCR specifi c 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 identifi ed only 4 (2%) as positive.
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Parola, P., Diatta, G., Socolovschi, C., Mediannikov, O., Tall, A., Bassene, H., … Raoult, D. (2011). Tick-borne relapsing fever borreliosis, rural senegal. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17(5), 883–885. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1705.100573
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