Endemic foci of the tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia crocidurae in Mali, West Africa, and the potential for human infection.

• Main Authors: Tom G Schwan (Author), Jennifer M Anderson (Author), Job E Lopez (Author), Robert J Fischer (Author), Sandra J Raffel (Author), Brandi N McCoy (Author), David Safronetz (Author), Nafomon Sogoba (Author), Ousmane Maïga (Author), Sékou F Traoré (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes are maintained in endemic foci that involve a diversity of small mammals and argasid ticks in the genus Ornithodoros. Most epidemiological studies of tick-borne relapsing fever in West Africa caused by Borrelia crocidurae have been conducted in Senegal. The ris...