 Relapsing Fever
"Relapsing Fever" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An acute infection characterized by recurrent episodes of PYREXIA alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition is caused by SPIROCHETES of the genus BORRELIA. It is transmitted by the BITES of either the body louse (PEDICULUS humanus corporis), for which humans are the reservoir, or by soft ticks of the genus ORNITHODOROS, for which rodents and other animals are the principal reservoirs.
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D012061
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.400.155.644 C01.252.400.825.750 C01.252.847.193.644
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| Concept/Terms |
Relapsing Fever- Relapsing Fever
- Fever, Relapsing
- Fevers, Relapsing
- Relapsing Fevers
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Relapsing Fever" by people in Profiles.
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Richards CL, Raffel SJ, Bontemps-Gallo S, Dulebohn DP, Herbert TC, Gherardini FC. The arginine deaminase system plays distinct roles in Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii. PLoS Pathog. 2022 03; 18(3):e1010370.
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Campbell SB, Klioueva A, Taylor J, Nelson C, Tomasi S, Replogle A, Kwit N, Sexton C, Schwartz A, Hinckley A. Evaluating the risk of tick-borne relapsing fever among occupational cavers-Austin, TX, 2017. Zoonoses Public Health. 2019 09; 66(6):579-586.
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