TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - RELAPSING FEVER A1 - Barbour, Alan G. A2 - Kasper, Dennis L. A2 - Fauci, Anthony S. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e AB - Relapsing fever is caused by infection with any of several species of Borrelia spirochetes. Physicians in ancient Greece distinguished relapsing fever from other febrile disorders by its characteristic clinical presentation: two or more fever episodes separated by varying periods of well-being. In the nineteenth century, relapsing fever was one of the first diseases to be associated with a specific microbe by virtue of its characteristic laboratory finding: the presence of large numbers of spirochetes of the genus Borrelia in the blood. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141410008 ER -