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

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

Edwin Vázquez-Guerrero,

Affiliation Laboratorio de Genética Microbiana, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4092-5158

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Norma P. Adan-Bante,

Affiliation Laboratorio de Investigación en Zoonosis y Enfermedades Tropicales, Unidad Regional Sur, Universidad de Sonora, Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4837-9879

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Mónica C. Mercado-Uribe,

Affiliation Departamento de Infectología Pediátrica del Hospital Civil de Guadalajara “Fray Antonio Alcalde,” Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1352-683X

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César Hernández-Rodríguez,

Affiliation 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
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Lourdes Villa-Tanaca,

Affiliations Laboratorio de Genética Microbiana, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico, 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
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Job E. Lopez ,

* E-mail: jaig19@gmail.com (JAI); job.lopez@bcm.edu (JEL)

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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J. Antonio Ibarra

* E-mail: jaig19@gmail.com (JAI); job.lopez@bcm.edu (JEL)

Affiliation Laboratorio de Genética Microbiana, Departamento de Microbiología, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5016-0622

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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

Published: April 11, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007215

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