Tag Stephen K. Obaro

Relapsing fever is characterized by recurring fevers and flu-like symptoms such as headaches, myalgia, arthralgia, and rigors. Etiology Relapsing fever is an arthropod (lice or ticks)-transmitted infection caused by spirochetes of the genus Borrelia . Louse-borne (epidemic) relapsing fever is…

Nonvenereal treponemal infections—yaws, bejel (endemic syphilis), and pinta—are caused by different subspecies of Treponema pallidum and occur in tropical and subtropical areas. The causative agents of nonvenereal treponematoses— T. pallidum pertenue, T. pallidum subspecies endemicum, and Treponema carateum —cannot be…