Harrison's Manual of Medicine
RELAPSING FEVER
MICROBIOLOGY
Borrelia recurrentis causes louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) and is transmitted from person to person by the body louse. Spirochetes are introduced not from the bite itself but from rubbing of the insect’s feces into the bite site in response to irritation. Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF), a zoonosis usually transmitted via the bite of various Ornithodoros ticks, is caused by multiple Borrelia species. B. miyamotoi can cause relapsing fever but is transmitted to humans from other mammals by hard ticks (e.g., Ixodes scapularis) that also transmit B. burgdorferi and other tick-borne illnesses.
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Citation
Kasper, Dennis L., et al., editors. "RELAPSING FEVER." Harrison's Manual of Medicine, 19th ed., McGraw Hill Inc., 2017. harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623252/4/RELAPSING_FEVER.
RELAPSING FEVER. In: Kasper DLD, Fauci ASA, Hauser SLS, et al, eds. Harrison's Manual of Medicine. McGraw Hill Inc.; 2017. https://harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623252/4/RELAPSING_FEVER. Accessed April 20, 2024.
RELAPSING FEVER. (2017). In Kasper, D. L., Fauci, A. S., Hauser, S. L., Longo, D. L., Jameson, J. L., & Loscalzo, J. (Eds.), Harrison's Manual of Medicine (19th ed.). McGraw Hill Inc.. https://harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623252/4/RELAPSING_FEVER
RELAPSING FEVER [Internet]. In: Kasper DLD, Fauci ASA, Hauser SLS, Longo DLD, Jameson JLJ, Loscalzo JJ, editors. Harrison's Manual of Medicine. McGraw Hill Inc.; 2017. [cited 2024 April 20]. Available from: https://harrisons.unboundmedicine.com/harrisons/view/Harrisons-Manual-of-Medicine/623252/4/RELAPSING_FEVER.
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