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Borrelia persica infection in dogs and cats: clinical manifestations, clinicopathological findings and genetic characterization.
Parasites & vectors - 10 May 2016
Baneth Gad, Nachum-Biala Yaarit, Halperin Tamar, Hershko Yizhak, Kleinerman Gabriela, Anug Yigal, Abdeen Ziad, Lavy Eran, Aroch Itamar, Straubinger Reinhard K
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BACKGROUND: Relapsing fever (RF) is an acute infectious disease caused by arthropod-borne spirochetes of the genus Borrelia. The disease is characterized by recurrent episodes of fever that concur with spirochetemia. The RF borrelioses include louse-borne RF caused by Borrelia recurrentis and tick-borne endemic RF transmitted by argasid soft ticks and caused by several Borrelia spp. such as B. crocidurae, B....
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