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      Killing Clothes Lice by Holding Infested Clothes Away from Hosts for 10 Days to Control Louseborne Relapsing Fever, Bahir Dah, Ethiopia

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          Louseborne relapsing fever (LBRF) was once a cosmopolitan disease, but it now occurs only in the Horn of Africa. Recent cases in refugees to Europe made LBRF topical again. Crowded boarding houses and church dwellings in Ethiopia are analogous to the crowded air-raid shelters of World War II. Thus, we might learn from experiments the London School of Tropical Hygiene and Medicine conducted during World War II. When the vector of Borrelia recurrentis ( Pediculus humanus lice) was held away from the host for 10 days, 100% of nymphal and adult lice starved to death and 100% of eggs did not hatch. We hypothesize that holding infested clothes away from hosts in plastic shopping bags will kill enough lice to control LBRF in Ethiopia. Owning 2 sets of clothes might be useful; 1 set might be held in a plastic shopping bag for 10 days to kill lice and their eggs.

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          Relapsing Fever Borreliae: A Global Review.

          Sally Cutler (2015)
          Relapsing fever borreliae were notorious and feared infectious agents that earned their place in history through their devastating impact as causes of both epidemic and endemic infection. They are now considered more as an oddity, and their burden of infection is largely overshadowed by other infections such as malaria, which presents in a similar clinical way. Despite this, they remain the most common bacterial infection in some developing countries. Transmitted by soft ticks or lice, these fascinating spirochetes have evolved a myriad of mechanisms to survive within their diverse environments.
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            New concepts for the old challenge of African relapsing fever borreliosis.

            S.J. Cutler, A Abdissa, J.-F. Trape (2009)
            Relapsing fever, caused by spirochaetes belonging to the genus Borrelia, was once the cause of worldwide epidemic disease. This was largely through infection with the louse-borne form of the disease, caused by Borrelia recurrentis (louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF)). During the last century, we have witnessed the demise of this infection, largely owing to improved standards of living and the introduction of the insecticide DDT, resulting in a reduction in the incidence of the body louse, the vector for relapsing fever. In areas of extreme poverty this disease persists, causing a significant burden of disease. It is now looking probable that this infection is caused by a louse-adapted variant of Borrelia duttonii, transmitted by Ornithodoros moubata 'soft' ticks in East Africa. Like LBRF, infection still causes impact, particularly affecting young children and pregnant women. Over recent years, the true burden of relapsing fever caused by infection with the closely related Borrelia crocidurae, transmitted by Ornithodoros sonrai ticks, has only just begun to emerge. Here, the current state of knowledge concerning relapsing fever in Africa is reviewed.
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              Relapsing fever borreliae in Africa.

              Haitham Elbir, Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt (2013)
              The study of relapsing fever borreliae in Africa has long suffered from the use of non-specific laboratory tools for the direct detection of these spirochetes in clinical and vector specimens. Accordingly, Borrelia hispanica, Borrelia crocidurae, Borrelia duttonii, and Borrelia recurrentis have traditionally been distinguished on the basis of geography and vector and the unproven hypothesis that each species was exclusive to one vector. The recent sequencing of three relapsing fever Borrelia genomes in our laboratory prompted the development of more specific tools and a reappraisal of the epidemiology in Africa. Five additional potential species still need to be cultured from clinical and vector sources in East Africa to further assess their uniqueness. Here, we review the molecular evidence of relapsing fever borreliae in hosts and ectoparasites in Africa and explore the diversity, geographical distribution, and vector association of these pathogens for Africans and travelers to Africa.
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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Emerg Infect Dis
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Emerging Infect. Dis
                Journal ID (publisher-id): EID
                Title: Emerging Infectious Diseases
                Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
                ISSN (Print): 1080-6040
                ISSN (Electronic): 1080-6059
                Publication date (Print): February 2019
                Volume: 25
                Issue: 2
                Pages: 304-310
                Affiliations
                [1]University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (S.C. Barker);
                [2]University of Queensland School of Veterinary Sciences, Gatton, Queensland, Australia (D. Barker)
                Author notes
                Address for correspondence: Stephen C. Barker, Parasitology Section, School Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia; email: s.barker@ 123456uq.edu.au
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                Publisher ID: 18-1226
                DOI: 10.3201/eid2502.181226
                PMC ID: 6346454
                SO-VID: de747222-a961-48f0-be24-40eb723bbc73
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                Subject: Historical Review
                Subject: Historical Review
                Subject: Killing Clothes Lice by Holding Infested Clothes away from Hosts for 10 Days to Control Louseborne Relapsing Fever, Bahir Dah, Ethiopia

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Infectious disease & Microbiology
                Keywords: phthiraptera,pediculus humanus,louseborne relapsing fever,lice,clothes lice,infested clothes,barrels,borrelia recurrentis,bacteria,vector-borne infections,zoonoses,london school of hygiene and tropical medicine,world war i,world war ii,ethiopia
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Infectious disease & Microbiology
                Keywords: phthiraptera, pediculus humanus, louseborne relapsing fever, lice, clothes lice, infested clothes, barrels, borrelia recurrentis, bacteria, vector-borne infections, zoonoses, london school of hygiene and tropical medicine, world war i, world war ii, ethiopia

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