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

• Hauptverfasser: Tom G Schwan (Verfasst von), Jennifer M Anderson (Verfasst von), Job E Lopez (Verfasst von), Robert J Fischer (Verfasst von), Sandra J Raffel (Verfasst von), Brandi N McCoy (Verfasst von), David Safronetz (Verfasst von), Nafomon Sogoba (Verfasst von), Ousmane Maïga (Verfasst von), Sékou F Traoré (Verfasst von)
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• Veröffentlicht: 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...