Borrelia recurrentis

Borrelia recurrentis
the cause of louse-borne relapsing fever, transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus). The organism is spread by rubbing infected hemolymph of lice into the skin, as in scratching. The organism produces successive antigenic mutants that cause the clinical relapses.

Borrelia recurrentis in blood (Giemsa stain).


Medical dictionary. 2011.

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