First insights in the variability of Borrelia recurrentis genomes.

• Main Authors: Durdica Marosevic (Author), Gabriele Margos (Author), Reinhard Wallich (Author), Andreas Wieser (Author), Andreas Sing (Author), Volker Fingerle (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Borrelia recurrentis is the causative agent of louse-borne relapsing fever, endemic to the Horn of Africa. New attention was raised in Europe, with the highest number of cases (n = 45) reported among migrants in 2015 in Germany and sporadically from other European countries. So far only one genome w...