(Ticks relapsing fever, relapsing fever, or “famine Fever”)
Relapsing fever is a recurrent febrile illness which is caused by different Borrelia species and transmitted by lice or tick. The symptoms are recurrent febrile episodes with headache, myalgia and vomiting that last for 3-5 days and are interrupted by symptom-free intervals. The diagnosis is made clinically and confirmed by staining of peripheral blood smears. The therapy carried out using a tetracycline or erythromycin.
Suitable vectors are insects, depending on the geographical location of either ticks of the genus Ornithodorus or human body louse, depending on the geographical location.
Relapsing fever is a recurrent febrile illness which is caused by different Borrelia species and transmitted by lice or tick. The symptoms are recurrent febrile episodes with headache, myalgia and vomiting that last for 3-5 days and are interrupted by symptom-free intervals. The diagnosis is made clinically and confirmed by staining of peripheral blood smears. The therapy carried out using a tetracycline or erythromycin. Suitable vectors are insects, depending on the geographical location of either ticks of the genus Ornithodorus or human body louse, depending on the geographical location. The transmitted by lice relapsing fever are rare in the US and are endemic only in the hill country of Central and East Africa and the Andes in South America. The transmitted by lice relapsing fever tends to occur in epidemics, especially in regions affected by war and refugee camps. The louse becomes infected when feeding on a febrile patients; Humans are the only reservoir. If the louse is crushed to a new host, Borrelia are released, and can penetrate through the eroded skin or stitches. Intact lice do not transmit diseases. The tick-borne relapsing fever are found in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. In the US, the disease is generally limited to the western states, where it occurs especially between May and September. Ticks acquire the spirochetes from rodent reservoirs. People become infected when spirochetes in the tick saliva or -exkret quickly penetrate into the skin at the tick bite. Infection is more common in people who sleep in infested by rodents cabins in the mountains. About Congenital Lyme disease has also been reported. Ornithodoros Turicata Image courtesy of Jim Occi and www.insectimages.org. var model = {thumbnailUrl: ‘/-/media/manual/professional/images/ornithodoros_turicata_orig_de.jpg?la=de&thn=0&mw=350’ imageUrl: ‘/-/media/manual/professional/images/ornithodoros_turicata_orig_de.jpg?la = en & thn = 0 ‘, title:’ Ornithodoros Turicata ‘description:’ u003Ca id = “v37896246 ” class = “”anchor “” u003e u003c / a u003e u003cdiv class = “”para “” u003e u003cp u003eDas tick-borne relapsing fever is caused by several u003ci u003eBorrelia u003c / i u003e species