Louse-borne relapsing fever—A systematic review and analysis of the literature: Part 1—Epidemiology and diagnostic aspects
Fig 2
Microscopic detection of B. recurrentis in blood films.
a) Drawing of B. recurrentis spirochetes found in a thin blood film obtained from a patient suffering from LBRF in 1909 in Jaipur, India [39]. b) Photography of B. recurrentis spirochetes found in a thin blood smear (May–Grünwald–Giemsa stain, magnification 1,000-fold) obtained from an Eritrean migrant suffering from LBRF in 2015 in Basel, Switzerland. LBRF, louse-borne relapsing fever; TBRF, tick-borne relapsing fever. Image credit: Dr. Michael Osthoff.