Tickborne Relapsing Fever Diagnosis Obscured by Malaria, Togo

Relapsing fever caused by Borrelia crocidurae and B. duttonii in Togo may be misdiagnosed.

• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2007-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1301.060670PMID 17370524PMCID 2725822
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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