Case report: A retrospective serological analysis indicating human exposure to tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in Sonora, Mexico

Edwin Vázquez-Guerrero; Norma P Adan-Bante; Mónica C Mercado-Uribe; César Hernández-Rodríguez; Lourdes Villa-Tanaca; Job E Lopez; J Antonio Ibarra

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0007215

Case report: A retrospective serological analysis indicating human exposure to tick-borne relapsing fever spirochetes in Sonora, Mexico

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2019 Apr 11;13(4):e0007215. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0007215. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Edwin Vázquez-Guerrero¹, Norma P Adan-Bante², Mónica C Mercado-Uribe³, César Hernández-Rodríguez⁴, Lourdes Villa-Tanaca^{1

4}, Job E Lopez⁵, J Antonio Ibarra¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratorio de Genética Microbiana, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.
² Laboratorio de Investigación en Zoonosis y Enfermedades Tropicales, Unidad Regional Sur, Universidad de Sonora, Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico.
³ Departamento de Infectología Pediátrica del Hospital Civil de Guadalajara "Fray Antonio Alcalde," Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
⁴ Laboratorio de Biología Celular y Molecular de Procariotes y Levaduras, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico.
⁵ Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Bacterial Proteins / blood*
Bites and Stings
Borrelia / drug effects
Doxycycline / therapeutic use
Female
Fever / diagnosis
Fever / etiology
Humans
Mexico
Middle Aged
Relapsing Fever / blood
Relapsing Fever / diagnosis*
Relapsing Fever / drug therapy
Retrospective Studies
Serologic Tests / methods*
Ticks / microbiology

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Bacterial Proteins
Doxycycline

Grants and funding

This study was partially supported by Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado (IPN) through project SIP-20180647 to JAI, by start-up funds from the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine to JEL and by Universidad de Sonora grant USO513005374 to NPA-B. EV-G did an MSc at the CQB program (ENCB-IPN) and was supported by a scholarship from CONACYT (639935/618908). JAI, CH-R and LV-T also received support from COFAA-IPN, EDI-IPN and SNI-CONACyT. The funders had no role in the design of the study, the data collection and analysis, the decision to publish or the preparation of the manuscript.