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Spinello Antinori1,2, Cristina Tonello3, Sophie Edouard4, Carlo Parravicini3, Daniela Gastaldi5, Romualdo Grande6, Laura Milazzo1, Davide Ricaboni4,1, Florence Fenollar4, Didier Raoult4, Mario Corbellino1, Oleg Mediannikov4.
Abstract
We report two cases of louse-borne relapsing fever observed at our Institution in June 2016. Both patients were young asylum seekers from Africa who had recently arrived in Milan, Italy. Notably, direct microscopic examination of peripheral blood smears was repeatedly negative for the presence of spirochetes and the diagnosis, supported by clinical and epidemiologic evidence, required molecular confirmation by polymerase chain reaction amplification of DNA extracted from blood and sequencing of the amplified products.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID： 29016302 PMCID： PMC5805056 DOI： 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0320
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg ISSN： 0002-9637 Impact factor: 2.345