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- Title
Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019.
- Authors
Muigg, Veronika; Seth-Smith, Helena M. B.; Goldenberger, Daniel; Egli, Adrian; Nickel, Beatrice; Dürig, Roland; Kuenzli, Esther; Hinic, Vladimira; Neumayr, Andreas
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
CENTRAL Asia; SWITZERLAND; ASIA; RELAPSING fever; BORRELIA; SHOTGUN sequencing; TRAVELERS; DISEASE relapse; BACTERIA
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020, Vol 26, Issue 4, p824
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/2604.191771