Line immunoblot assay for tick-borne relapsing fever and findings in patient sera from Australia, Ukraine and the USA

JS Shah, S Liu, I Du Cruz, A Poruri, R Maynard… - Healthcare, 2019 - mdpi.com
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is caused by spirochete bacteria of the genus Borrelia
termed relapsing fever Borreliae (RFB). TBRF shares symptoms with Lyme disease (LD) …

Recombinant protein immunoblots for differential diagnosis of tick-borne relapsing fever and Lyme disease

JS Shah, JJ Burrascano… - Journal of Vector Borne …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Lyme disease (LD) is caused by a group of tick-borne bacteria of the genus Borrelia termed
Lyme disease Borreliae (LDB). The detection of serum antibodies to specific LDB antigens is …

Relapsing fever Borrelia in California: a pilot serological study

MJ Middelveen, JS Shah, MC Fesler… - International journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background Borrelia spirochetes are tick-borne Gram-negative bacteria that cause disease
in humans and animals. Although many studies have focused on Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) …

Tick borne relapsing fever-a systematic review and analysis of the literature

Á Jakab, P Kahlig, E Kuenzli… - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Tick borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is a zoonosis caused by various Borrelia species
transmitted to humans by both soft-bodied and (more recently recognized) hard-bodied ticks …

[HTML][HTML] Epidemiology of tick-borne relapsing fever in endemic area, Spain

MC Domínguez, S Vergara, MC Gómez… - Emerging Infectious …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is caused by spirochetes of Borrelia bacteria. We
collected data on all TBRF cases in a TBRF-endemic area in southwest Spain during 1994 …

GlpQ: an antigen for serological discrimination between relapsing fever and Lyme borreliosis

TG Schwan, ME Schrumpf, BJ Hinnebusch… - Journal of clinical …, 1996 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tick-borne relapsing fever is caused by numerous Borrelia species maintained in nature by
Ornithodoros tick-mammal cycles. Serological confirmation is based on either an …

Antibodies to Borrelia turicatae in experimentally infected dogs cross-react with Borrelia burgdorferi serologic assays

JR Gettings, JE Lopez, A Krishnavajhala… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is caused by several Borrelia spp.(including Borrelia
turicatae), which are primarily transmitted by Ornithodoros ticks. Relapsing fever group …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular characterization of tickborne relapsing fever Borrelia, Israel

MV Assous, A Wilamowski, H Bercovier… - Emerging infectious …, 2006 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Blood samples from 18 tickborne relapsing fever (TBRF) patients and Ornithodoros
tholozani specimens were tested with a Borrelia flaB-PCR. Results were positive for all …

[HTML][HTML] Relapsing fever borreliosis in Eurasia—forgotten, but certainly not gone!

MV Assous, A Wilamowski - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2009 - Elsevier
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) has been reported in Eurasia and attributed mainly to
Borrelia persica, although other entities have also been described. Ornithodoros tholozani is …

Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Borrelia Infecting Ornithodoros (Pavlovskyella) verrucosus Ticks Collected in Ukraine

S Filatov, A Krishnavajhala… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is a neglected zoonotic bacterial disease
known to occur on 5 continents. We report a laboratory-acquired case of TBRF caused by …