PART 8: Infectious Diseases
SECTION 9 Spirochetal Diseases
172 Relapsing Fever
 | Figure 172-1 Photomicrograph of tick-borne relapsing fever spirochete (Borrelia hermsii) in a Wright-Giemsa–stained peripheral blood film. [Reprinted with permission from Dennis DT: Relapsing fever, in Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th ed, AF Fauci et al (eds). New York, McGraw-Hill, 2008, p... |
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 | Figure 172-2 Ornithodoros turicata and O. hermsi, two of the many species of blood-feeding soft ticks responsible for transmitting tick-borne relapsing fever. (Reprinted from Dworkin et al., 2008, with permission from... |
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 | Figure 172-3 Treatment of relapsing fever and approach to the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. |
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