Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochetes in the Americas

Relapsing fever spirochetes are tick- and louse-borne pathogens that primarily afflict those in impoverished countries. Historically the pathogens have had a significant impact on public health, yet currently they are often overlooked because of the nonspecific display of disease. In this review, we...

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Autores principales: Lopez, Job E., Krishnavahjala, Aparna, Garcia, Melissa N., Bermudez, Sergio
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28959690
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vetsci3030016
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description Relapsing fever spirochetes are tick- and louse-borne pathogens that primarily afflict those in impoverished countries. Historically the pathogens have had a significant impact on public health, yet currently they are often overlooked because of the nonspecific display of disease. In this review, we discuss aspects of relapsing fever (RF) spirochete pathogenesis including the: (1) clinical manifestation of disease; (2) ability to diagnose pathogen exposure; (3) the pathogen’s life cycle in the tick and mammal; and (4) ecological factors contributing to the maintenance of RF spirochetes in nature.
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spelling pubmed-56065722017-09-26 Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochetes in the Americas Lopez, Job E. Krishnavahjala, Aparna Garcia, Melissa N. Bermudez, Sergio Vet Sci Review Relapsing fever spirochetes are tick- and louse-borne pathogens that primarily afflict those in impoverished countries. Historically the pathogens have had a significant impact on public health, yet currently they are often overlooked because of the nonspecific display of disease. In this review, we discuss aspects of relapsing fever (RF) spirochete pathogenesis including the: (1) clinical manifestation of disease; (2) ability to diagnose pathogen exposure; (3) the pathogen’s life cycle in the tick and mammal; and (4) ecological factors contributing to the maintenance of RF spirochetes in nature. MDPI 2016-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5606572/ /pubmed/28959690 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vetsci3030016 Text en © 2016 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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