Tick-borne relapsing fever borreliosis, rural Senegal

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ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES

Emerging Infectious Diseases

883-885 SENEGAL 2011

fdi:010053579

ENG

Emerging Infectious Diseases

1080-6040

ISI:000290291900021

10.3201/eid1705100573

https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010053579

https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers17-02/010053579.pdf

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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. 052 UR198 Sénégal