"Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica" Detected from a Febrile Traveller Returning to Germany from Vacation in Southern Africa.

• Main Authors: Volker Fingerle (Author), Michael Pritsch (Author), Martin Wächtler (Author), Gabriele Margos (Author), Sabine Ruske (Author), Jette Jung (Author), Thomas Löscher (Author), Clemens Wendtner (Author), Andreas Wieser (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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A 26 year-old female patient presented to the Tropical Medicine outpatient unit of the Ludwig Maximilians-University in Munich with febrile illness after returning from Southern Africa, where she contracted a bite by a large mite-like arthropod, most likely a soft-tick. Spirochetes were detected in...