RT Book, Section
A1 Barbour, Alan G.
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141410008
T1 RELAPSING FEVER
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141410008
RD 2024/04/24
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.