Borrelia persica infection in dogs and cats: clinical manifestations, clinicopathological findings and genetic characterization.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Relapsing fever (RF) is an acute infectious disease caused by arthropod-borne spirochetes of the genus Borrelia. The disease is characterized by recurrent episodes of fever that concur with spirochetemia. The RF borrelioses include louse-borne RF caused by Borrelia recurrentis and tick-borne endemic RF transmitted by argasid soft ticks and caused by several Borrelia spp. such as B. crocidurae, B. coriaceae, B. duttoni, B. hermsii, B. hispanica and B. persica. Human infection with B. persica is transmitted by the soft tick Ornithodoros tholozani and has been reported from Iran, Israel, Egypt, India, and Central Asia.

Methods

During 2003-2015, five cats and five dogs from northern, central and southern Israel were presented for veterinary care and detected with borr

SUBMITTER: Baneth G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4862127 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature