%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Parola, P.
%A Diatta, G.
%A Socolovschi, C.
%A Mediannikov, Oleg
%A Tall, A.
%A Bassene, H.
%A Trape, Jean-François
%A Raoult, D.
%T Tick-borne relapsing fever borreliosis, rural Senegal
%D 2011
%L fdi:010053579
%G ENG
%J Emerging Infectious Diseases
%@ 1080-6040
%K SENEGAL
%M ISI:000290291900021
%N 5
%P 883-885
%R 10.3201/eid1705100573
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053579
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers17-02/010053579.pdf
%V 17
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Detecting spirochetes remains challenging in cases of African tick-borne relapsing fever. Using real-time PCR specific for the 16S rRNA Borrelia gene, we found 27 (13%) of 206 samples from febrile patients in rural Senegal to be positive, whereas thick blood smear examinations conducted at dispensaries identified only 4 (2%) as positive.
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