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SUBMITTER: Osthoff M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4869252 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Osthoff Michael M Schibli Adrian A Fadini Davide D Lardelli Pietro P Goldenberger Daniel D
BMC infectious diseases 20160517
<h4>Background</h4>Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is a neglected disease that has been restricted to East Africa for many decades. Several cases in refugees from the Horn of Africa have been recently diagnosed in four European countries.<h4>Case presentation</h4>We report four additional cases of LBRF in asylum seekers from Somalia and Eritrea who presented with fever shortly after arriving in Switzerland during a seven-month period. Multiple spirochetes were visualized on stained blood film ...[more]