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eMedicine - Tick-borne Diseases, Relapsing Fever : Article by Jonathan A Edlow,

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic590.htm

Tick-borne Diseases, Relapsing Fever - Relapsing fever is an acute febrile illness caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia. The high fevers of presenting patients spontaneously abate and then recur. This characteristic pattern of remission and relapse not only gives relapsing fever its name, but also allows it to be differentiated clinically from other febrile illnesses as it has since the 1840s.Large outbreaks of louse-borne relapsing fever have occurred throughout the past century. These outbreaks usually occur ...

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