Tick-borne relapsing fever: another underdiagnosed etiology in tropical Latin America?

Fiebre recurrente transmitida por garrapatas: ¿otra etiología subdiagnosticada en Latinoamérica tropical?

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Faccini M, Álvaro, González Tous, M., & Mattar Velilla, S. (2018). Tick-borne relapsing fever: another underdiagnosed etiology in tropical Latin America?. Journal MVZ Cordoba, 23(1), 6399-6402. https://doi.org/10.21897/rmvz.1230
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Álvaro Faccini M
Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo Maruípe, Vitória, ES, Brasil
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1127-0132

Marco González Tous
Universidad de Córdoba Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas del Trópico Montería - Colombia
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6500-5601

Salim Mattar Velilla
Universidad de Córdoba Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas del Trópico Montería - Colombia
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0526-4630

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Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is an infectious zoonotic disease caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia, transmitted to humans and animals through the bite of soft ticks (Argasidae) of the genus Ornithodoros (1,2). In nature, borreliae are maintained in an enzootic cycle that involves wild mammals (mainly rodents), where ticks acquire spirochetes after short periods of hematophagy (15-90 minutes), remaining chronically infected with the possibility of transmitting microorganisms to new vertebrate individuals, including man, who acts as an accidental host (2).

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