1.
Emerg Infect Dis
; 23(5): 883-884, 2017 05.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28418310
RESUMO
In August 2015, a soldier returned from field exercises in Texas, USA, with nonspecific febrile illness. Culture and sequencing of spirochetes from peripheral blood diagnosed Borrelia turicatae infection. The patient recovered after receiving doxycycline. No illness occurred in asymptomatic soldiers potentially exposed to the vector tick and prophylactically given treatment.
Assuntos
Borrelia , Militares , Febre Recorrente/diagnóstico , Febre Recorrente/terapia , Adulto , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Borrelia/classificação , Borrelia/genética , Borrelia/imunologia , Gerenciamento Clínico , Genoma Bacteriano , Humanos , Masculino , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Testes Sorológicos , Texas , Resultado do Tratamento
2.
Genome Announc
; 4(4)2016 Jul 14.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27417836
RESUMO
The sequences of the complete linear chromosome and 7 linear plasmids of the relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia turicatae are presented in this report. The 925,547 bp of chromosome and 380,211 bp of plasmid sequence were predicted to contain a total of 1,131 open reading frames, with an average G+C content of 29.7%.