Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia lonestari after Tick Bite in Alabama, USA.

ABSTRACT: We report an immunocompromised patient in Alabama, USA, 75 years of age, with relapsing fevers and pancytopenia who had spirochetemia after a tick bite. We identified Borrelia lonestari by using PCR, sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis. Increasing clinical availability of molecular diagnostics might identify B. lonestari as an emerging tickborne pathogen.

SUBMITTER: Vazquez Guillamet LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9881794 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature