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Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases

Relapsing fever still remains a neglected disease and little is known on its reservoir, tick vector and physiopathology in the vertebrate host. The disease occurs in temperate as well as tropical countries. Relapsing fever borreliae are spirochaetes, members of the Borreliaceae family which also con...

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Autores principales: Talagrand-Reboul, Emilie, Boyer, Pierre H., Bergström, Sven, Vial, Laurence, Boulanger, Nathalie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5893795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29670860
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00098
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author Talagrand-Reboul, Emilie
Boyer, Pierre H.
Bergström, Sven
Vial, Laurence
Boulanger, Nathalie
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description Relapsing fever still remains a neglected disease and little is known on its reservoir, tick vector and physiopathology in the vertebrate host. The disease occurs in temperate as well as tropical countries. Relapsing fever borreliae are spirochaetes, members of the Borreliaceae family which also contain Lyme disease spirochaetes. They are mainly transmitted by Ornithodoros soft ticks, but some species are vectored by ixodid ticks. Traditionally a Borrelia species is associated with a specific vector in a particular geographical area. However, new species are regularly described, and taxonomical uncertainties deserve further investigations to better understand Borrelia vector/host adaptation. The medical importance of Borrelia miyamotoi, transmitted by Ixodes spp., has recently spawned new interest in this bacterial group. In this review, recent data on tick-host-pathogen interactions for tick-borne relapsing fevers is presented, with special focus on B. miyamotoi.
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spelling pubmed-58937952018-04-18 Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases Talagrand-Reboul, Emilie Boyer, Pierre H. Bergström, Sven Vial, Laurence Boulanger, Nathalie Front Cell Infect Microbiol Microbiology Relapsing fever still remains a neglected disease and little is known on its reservoir, tick vector and physiopathology in the vertebrate host. The disease occurs in temperate as well as tropical countries. Relapsing fever borreliae are spirochaetes, members of the Borreliaceae family which also contain Lyme disease spirochaetes. They are mainly transmitted by Ornithodoros soft ticks, but some species are vectored by ixodid ticks. Traditionally a Borrelia species is associated with a specific vector in a particular geographical area. However, new species are regularly described, and taxonomical uncertainties deserve further investigations to better understand Borrelia vector/host adaptation. The medical importance of Borrelia miyamotoi, transmitted by Ixodes spp., has recently spawned new interest in this bacterial group. In this review, recent data on tick-host-pathogen interactions for tick-borne relapsing fevers is presented, with special focus on B. miyamotoi. Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5893795/ /pubmed/29670860 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00098 Text en Copyright © 2018 Talagrand-Reboul, Boyer, Bergström, Vial and Boulanger. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Microbiology
Talagrand-Reboul, Emilie
Boyer, Pierre H.
Bergström, Sven
Vial, Laurence
Boulanger, Nathalie
Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases
title Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases
title_full Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases
title_fullStr Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases
title_full_unstemmed Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases
title_short Relapsing Fevers: Neglected Tick-Borne Diseases
title_sort relapsing fevers: neglected tick-borne diseases
topic Microbiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5893795/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29670860
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00098
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