Tick borne relapsing fever after travelling to a Greek island

Antoon Billiet; Steven Vanderschueren; Katrien Lagrou; Thomas Pilate; Pierre-Edouard Fournier; Lea Luciani; Liesbet Henckaerts

doi:10.1093/jtm/taab073

Tick borne relapsing fever after travelling to a Greek island

J Travel Med. 2022 Mar 21;29(2):taab073. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taab073.

Authors

Antoon Billiet¹, Steven Vanderschueren¹, Katrien Lagrou², Thomas Pilate², Pierre-Edouard Fournier³, Lea Luciani³, Liesbet Henckaerts¹

Affiliations

¹ University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Internal Medicine, Leuven, Belgium.
² University Hospitals Leuven, Department of Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Institut Hospitalo-Méditerranée Infection, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.

PMID: 33987678
DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taab073

No abstract available

Keywords: Borrelia persica; Dodecanese islands; Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction; Molecular diagnostics; Spirochetes; Travel medicine; Vector borne infections.

MeSH terms

Borrelia*
Greece
Humans
Relapsing Fever* / diagnosis
Relapsing Fever* / drug therapy
Relapsing Fever* / epidemiology
Travel