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SUBMITTER: Boardman K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6896849 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20191201 6
African multimammate rats, <i>Mastomys natalensis</i>, are widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa and live in close association with humans. In West Africa, numerous field studies have shown these animals may be naturally infected with the relapsing fever spirochete <i>Borrelia crocidurae</i>, the primary cause of tick-borne relapsing fever in this region of the continent. However, naturally infected individual rats have never been examined over time; therefore, the true host competency of the ...[more]