TY - JOUR AU - Muigg, Veronika AU - Seth-Smith, Helena M.B. AU - Goldenberger, Daniel AU - Egli, Adrian AU - Nickel, Beatrice AU - Dürig, Roland AU - Kuenzli, Esther AU - Hinic, Vladimira AU - Neumayr, Andreas T1 - Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Caused by Borrelia persica in Traveler to Central Asia, 2019 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2020 VL - 26 IS - 4 SP - 824 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report a case of tick-borne relapsing fever caused by Borrelia persica in a traveler returning to Switzerland from central Asia. After the disease was diagnosed by blood smear microscopy, the causative Borrelia species was confirmed by shotgun metagenomics sequencing. PCR and sequencing techniques provide highly sensitive diagnostic tools superior to microscopy. KW - Tick-borne relapsing fever KW - Borrelia persica KW - central Asia KW - Borrelia species KW - shotgun metagenomics KW - microscopy KW - bacteria KW - vector-borne infections KW - Tajikistan KW - Switzerland DO - 10.3201/eid2604.191771 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/4/19-1771_article ER - End of Reference