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

• Príomhchruthaitheoirí: Tom G Schwan (Údar), Jennifer M Anderson (Údar), Job E Lopez (Údar), Robert J Fischer (Údar), Sandra J Raffel (Údar), Brandi N McCoy (Údar), David Safronetz (Údar), Nafomon Sogoba (Údar), Ousmane Maïga (Údar), Sékou F Traoré (Údar)
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• Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: 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...