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Relapsing Fever

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Principles of Medical Therapy in Pregnancy

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Relapsing fever, an acute febrile infectious disease caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia, is clinically characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and apyrexia. The disease caused by these spirochetes may be divided into an epidemic form, which is louse borne, and an endemic form, which is tick borne.1

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  1. Southern PM, Sanford JP: Relapsing fever. A clinical and microbiological review. Medicine 48: 129 –149, 1969

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  1. Joseph M. Miller Jr.
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  2. Joseph G. Pastorek II
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  1. Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Norbert Gleicher M.D. (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman) (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman)

  2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Norbert Gleicher M.D. (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman) (Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Assistant Professor of Immunology/Microbiology, Chairman)

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Miller, J.M., Pastorek, J.G. (1985). Relapsing Fever. In: Gleicher, N. (eds) Principles of Medical Therapy in Pregnancy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2415-7_71

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