A recent study documents the likely first U.S. case of tickborne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia lonestari bacteria.
in last month’s edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its authors include scientists from the CDC, as well as doctors and researchers from the University of Alabama at BirminghamAccording to the report, the 75-year-old Alabama resident first saw doctors at The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital in April 2019.
recently, but four weeks before the trouble started, he found a tick feeding off him. Tests then revealed that he had a kind of spirochete bacteria in his blood—a broad group of spiral-shaped bacteria, some of which are known to be spread by ticks. Doctors soon placed him on antibiotics.Following the first dose, the man developed a high fever and became stuporous . But he recovered
within 24 hours and finished the full course of treatment with no other issues. Over the next few months, any remaining signs of infection cleared up as well. It would take three months to confirm the man’s diagnosis: tickborne relapsing fever . TBRF is known to be caused by several species ofbacteria, distant cousins of the bacteria responsible for Lyme disease. But when they looked at the man’s blood under a microscope and analyzed the bacteria’s genetics, they didn’t find any of these known germs; instead, they foundthis is likely the first documented U.S.
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