Borrelia_duttonii

<i>Borrelia duttoni</i>

Borrelia duttoni

Species of bacterium

Borrelia duttoni (formerly known as Spirochaeta duttoni)[1] is a species of Borrelia.[2] It is the endemic causative agent of tick-borne relapsing fever in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and Madagascar. It is transmitted by the soft-bodied tick Ornithodoros moubata which sheds the pathogen in its saliva and coxal fluid. Vertical transmission occurs in ticks which thus appear to represent the major reservoir of this pathogen. Humans appear to be the sole vertebrate host of B. duttoni. Human disease is characterised by a long incubation period, numerous brief recurrences, and frequent ocular involvement. Infection results immunity which is enduring but strain-specific.[3]

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It is named after Joseph Everett Dutton, who died of the disease in 1905 while he and John Lancelot Todd were investigating "tick fever".[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Garnham, P. C. (1974). "Edward Hindle, 1886-1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 217–234. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0009. PMID 11615757. S2CID 40996516.
  2. [2]
    Vial L, Durand P, Arnathau C, et al. (September 2006). "Molecular divergences of the Ornithodoros sonrai soft tick species, a vector of human relapsing fever in West Africa". Microbes Infect. 8 (11): 2605–11. doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2006.07.012. PMID 16962358.
  3. [3]
    "Dictionnaire médical de l'Académie de Médecine". www.academie-medecine.fr. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  4. [4]
    Cook, Gordon (2007-09-17). Tropical Medicine: An Illustrated History of The Pioneers. Academic Press. pp. 167–169. ISBN 978-0-08-055939-1. Retrieved 2013-05-08.


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