"Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica" Detected from a Febrile Traveller Returning to Germany from Vacation in Southern Africa.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Volker Fingerle, Michael Pritsch, Martin Wächtler, Gabriele Margos, Sabine Ruske, Jette Jung, Thomas Löscher, Clemens Wendtner, Andreas Wieser
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Traveller; Mite
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004559; https://doaj.org/article/4fadbcdfd69449fea25c2c9e0daa99ae

A 26 year-old female patient presented to the Tropical Medicine outpatient unit of the Ludwig Maximilians-University in Munich with febrile illness after returning from Southern Africa, where she contracted a bite by a large mite-like arthropod, most likely a soft-tick. Spirochetes were detected in...