Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019

We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in a traveler returning to Switzerland from central Asia. After the disease was diagnosed by blood smear microscopy, the causative Borrelia species was confirmed by shotgun metagenomics sequencing. PCR and sequencing technique...

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Autores principales: Muigg, Veronika, Seth-Smith, Helena M.B., Goldenberger, Daniel, Egli, Adrian, Nickel, Beatrice, Dürig, Roland, Kuenzli, Esther, Hinic, Vladimira, Neumayr, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7101097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32187006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/2604.191771
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author Muigg, Veronika
Seth-Smith, Helena M.B.
Goldenberger, Daniel
Egli, Adrian
Nickel, Beatrice
Dürig, Roland
Kuenzli, Esther
Hinic, Vladimira
Neumayr, Andreas
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Seth-Smith, Helena M.B.
Goldenberger, Daniel
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Nickel, Beatrice
Dürig, Roland
Kuenzli, Esther
Hinic, Vladimira
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description We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in a traveler returning to Switzerland from central Asia. After the disease was diagnosed by blood smear microscopy, the causative Borrelia species was confirmed by shotgun metagenomics sequencing. PCR and sequencing techniques provide highly sensitive diagnostic tools superior to microscopy.
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spelling pubmed-71010972020-04-03 Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019 Muigg, Veronika Seth-Smith, Helena M.B. Goldenberger, Daniel Egli, Adrian Nickel, Beatrice Dürig, Roland Kuenzli, Esther Hinic, Vladimira Neumayr, Andreas Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in a traveler returning to Switzerland from central Asia. After the disease was diagnosed by blood smear microscopy, the causative Borrelia species was confirmed by shotgun metagenomics sequencing. PCR and sequencing techniques provide highly sensitive diagnostic tools superior to microscopy. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7101097/ /pubmed/32187006 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/2604.191771 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Letter
Muigg, Veronika
Seth-Smith, Helena M.B.
Goldenberger, Daniel
Egli, Adrian
Nickel, Beatrice
Dürig, Roland
Kuenzli, Esther
Hinic, Vladimira
Neumayr, Andreas
Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019
title Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019
title_full Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019
title_fullStr Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019
title_full_unstemmed Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019
title_short Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019
title_sort tick-borne relapsing fever caused by borrelia persica in traveler to central asia, 2019
topic Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7101097/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32187006
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/2604.191771
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