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Infections > Vector Borne Diseases > Tick-Borne Diseases > Relapsing Fever
... > Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections > Spirochaetales Infections > Borrelia Infections > Relapsing Fever

Preferred term

Relapsing Fever  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Borrelia hermsii Infection
  • Borrelia hermsii Infections
  • Borrelia recurrentis Infection
  • Borrelia recurrentis Infections
  • Infection, Borrelia hermsii
  • Infection, Borrelia recurrentis

Note

  • not for "recurrent fever" [= FEVER + RECURRENCE (NIM)]; infections by Borrelia species other than B. burgdorferi or B. burgdorferi group (which cause LYME DISEASE) probably go here, otherwise index under BORRELIA INFECTIONS

Scope note

  • An acute infection characterized by recurrent episodes of PYREXIA alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition is caused by SPIROCHETES of the genus BORRELIA. It is transmitted by the BITES of either the body louse (PEDICULUS humanus corporis), for which humans are the reservoir, or by soft ticks of the genus ORNITHODOROS, for which rodents and other animals are the principal reservoirs.

In other languages

  • toisintokuume

    Finnish

  • febres recurrentes
  • febris recurrens
  • febris recurrens non specificata
  • määrittämätön toisintokuume
  • ospecificerad återfallsfeber
  • toisintokuumeet
  • återfallsfeber
  • Återfallsfeber

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012061

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