Abstract INTRODUCTION: We investigated the occurrence of relapsing fever (RF) causing Borrelia genus spirochetes in synanthropic bats from the municipality of Maringá, Paraná, South of Brazil. METH
BackgroundTick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes are maintained in endemic foci that involve a diversity of small mammals and argasid ticks in the genus Ornithodoros. Most epidemiological studies of t
Sequence of the chromosome and selected plasmids of a strain of the relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsii from the Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
