Tick-borne relapsing fever Borreliosis, a major public health problem overlooked in Senegal

El Hadji Ibrahima Ndiaye; Fatou Samba Diouf; Mady Ndiaye; Hubert Bassene; Didier Raoult; Cheikh Sokhna; Philippe Parola; Georges Diatta

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0009184

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Tick-borne relapsing fever Borreliosis, a major public health problem overlooked in Senegal

El Hadji Ibrahima Ndiaye,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, APHM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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Fatou Samba Diouf,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

Affiliation VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD Hann, Dakar, Senegal
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Mady Ndiaye,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

Affiliation Laboratoire d’Entomologie, Bactériologie, Rickettsiologie, Virologie, Département de Biologie Animale, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
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Hubert Bassene,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, APHM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France, VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD Hann, Dakar, Senegal

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6507-1764

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Didier Raoult,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliations IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, Marseille, France
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Cheikh Sokhna,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources

Affiliations Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, APHM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France, VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD Hann, Dakar, Senegal
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Philippe Parola,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, APHM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France
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Georges Diatta

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: georges.diatta@ird.fr

Affiliations Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, APHM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France, VITROME, Campus International IRD-UCAD Hann, Dakar, Senegal
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Tick-borne relapsing fever Borreliosis, a major public health problem overlooked in Senegal

El Hadji Ibrahima Ndiaye,
Fatou Samba Diouf,
Mady Ndiaye,
Hubert Bassene,
Didier Raoult,
Cheikh Sokhna,
Philippe Parola,
Georges Diatta

Published: April 22, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009184

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