TITLE: Relapsing fever: a differential diagnosis to malaria.
AUTHORS: Poulsen LW; Iversen G
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Department of Infectious Diseases, Marselisborg Hospital,
Aurhus, Denmark.
SOURCE: Scand J Infect Dis 1996;28(4):419-20CITATION IDS: PMID: 8893411 UI:
97048575

ABSTRACT: A 20-year-old man who had spent several weeks in Asia suffered
several attacks of fever, each lasting 1 day in a cyclic pattern. Initially he
was suspected to have malaria, but no parasites were found in a {*filter*} smear.
When he was readmitted to the hospital with high fever and shivering. Borrelia
spirochaetes were detected in a {*filter*} smear, leading to a diagnosis of
relapsing fever. He recovered immediately when treated with tetracycline.

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