PMID: 374757May 25, 1979Paper

Tick-borne relapsing fever in Colorado. Historical review and report of cases

JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association
T A EdellT M Vernon

Abstract

Since 1915 the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains has been postulated as a focus of endemic tick-borne relapsing fever. However, the disease has rarely been identified: only two cases have been reported in Colorado since 1944. Three sporadic cases in 1977--tightly grouped geographically and temporally--prompted an epidemiologic review. Tick-borne relapsing fever should be considered in the differential diagnosis of recurrent paroxysmal fever--with or without known presence of ticks--whenever exposure in an endemic area is part of a patient's history.

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Aug 30, 2008·Infectious Disease Clinics of North America·Mark S DworkinStephanie M Borchardt
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Sep 13, 2006·FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology·Stanislas Rebaudet, Philippe Parola
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