ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2013
The first case of imported relapsing fever in Japan.
Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Tick borne relapsing fever - a systematic review and analysis of the literature.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Pooled it
- Borrelial Diseases Across Eurasia.Biology · 2025Review
- The Imported Relapsing Fever Case Was Not the First Case in Japan.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Isolation and Genetic Characterization of the Human Relapsing Fever SpirocheteTransboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Article
- Rapid clearance of Borrelia burgdorferi from the blood circulation.Parasites & vectors · 2020Article
- Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019.Emerging infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Epidemiological study of relapsing fever borreliae detected in Haemaphysalis ticks and wild animals in the western part of Japan.PloS one · 2017Article
- Recurrent Fever in Children.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016Review
- "Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica" Detected from a Febrile Traveller Returning to Germany from Vacation in Southern Africa.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
- Borrelia persica Infection in Immunocompetent Mice--A New Tool to Study the Infection Kinetics In Vivo.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2016Article
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Abstract
Tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF) is endemic in discrete areas throughout the world; however, a domestic or imported case of relapsing fever has not been reported in Japan. Here, we report the first imported case. A previously healthy 20-year-old woman presented to our hospital on October 8, 2010, because of recurrent fever and lower leg pain. Before consultation, she had experienced four febrile episodes at 10-12-day intervals after returning from her stay in Uzbekistan from 1 to 8 September. Giemsa stain of peripheral blood showed Borrelia spirochetes. The spirochete was identified as Borrelia persica by sequencing of the amplicons of flaB using polymerase chain reaction and phylogenetic analysis. The patient was diagnosed with TBRF, and she completed a 10-day course of minocycline 100 mg twice daily. After treatment, her periodic fever subsided. Physicians should be aware of TBRF in patients with recurrent fever who have returned from TBRF-endemic countries, including areas of the former USSR.
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