PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Volume 10, Issue 5, 2016

Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever (Borrelia recurrentis) in a Somali Refugee Arriving in Italy: A Re-emerging Infection in Europe? (Article) (Open Access)

Antinori S.* , Mediannikov O. , Corbellino M. , Grande R. , Parravicini C. , Bestetti G. , Longhi E. , Ricaboni D. , Ehounoud C.B. , Fenollar F. , Raoult D. , Rimoldi S.G.
  • a Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences Luigi Sacco, University of Milano, Milano, Italy, III Division of Infectious Diseases, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy
  • b Unité de Recherche sur le Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITIE) IRD198, CNRS 7278, INSERM 1095, Institute Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Mediterranee-Infection, Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France
  • c III Division of Infectious Diseases, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy
  • d Department of Diagnostic Services, Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Bioemergence Diagnostics, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy
  • e Department of Diagnostic Services Pathology Unit, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy
  • f III Division of Infectious Diseases, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy
  • g Department of Diagnostic Services Pathology Unit, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy
  • h III Division of Infectious Diseases, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy
  • i Unité de Recherche sur le Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITIE) IRD198, CNRS 7278, INSERM 1095, Institute Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Mediterranee-Infection, Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France
  • j Unité de Recherche sur le Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITIE) IRD198, CNRS 7278, INSERM 1095, Institute Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Mediterranee-Infection, Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France
  • k Unité de Recherche sur le Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITIE) IRD198, CNRS 7278, INSERM 1095, Institute Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Mediterranee-Infection, Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France
  • l Department of Diagnostic Services, Clinical Microbiology, Virology and Bioemergence Diagnostics, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Milano, Italy

Abstract

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Index Keywords

Lice Infestations genetics Somali (people) piperacillin plus tazobactam refugee louse vomiting complication human bacterium identification Refugees Borrelia Borrelia Infections pediculosis insect vector Herxheimer reaction Insect Vectors lymphocytopenia chill nausea Animals animal doxycycline Phthiraptera Young Adult Humans classification headache myalgia male case report refugee camp tachypnea polymerase chain reaction Borrelia infection Communicable Diseases, Emerging Article C reactive protein Phylogeny fever lactic acid blood analysis adult Somalia microbiology Italy thrombocytopenia
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84971657228&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pntd.0004522&partnerID=40&md5=ad3eb392c6953f9f68063059e462ca6e
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004522
ISSN: 19352727
Cited by: 18
Original Language: English