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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: 04g. Relapsing Fever, Soft ticks bite rodents, then another soft tick bits infected rodent Soft ticks can pass to offspring, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease diagnosis Dark field microscopy, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease symptoms Recurrent fever, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease bug Variable Major protein, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease epidemiology Primarily located in Colorado, upper midwest, Soft tick with disease can bite human Human is an accidental host, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease bug Complicated life cycle, Causes antigenic vairation of outer membrane proteins responsible for Recurrent fever, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease diagnosis Serology, Recurrent fever With each recurrence, severity decreases, Soft ticks bite rodents, then another soft tick bits infected rodent Also Louse?, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease diagnosis Culture, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease bug Borrelia recurrentis, Borrelia recurrentis Spirochetal, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease treatment Doxycycline, Borrelia recurrentis Rapidly mobile, Recurrent fever Separated by a few days, Soft tick with disease can bite human Disease spread from person to person via Body louse, RELAPSING FEVER Ticks, Borrelia, VMP, cyclical fevers, spirochete Ref: Pages 876-877; Microcard 61 Vector Disease diagnosis Blood sample, Variable Major protein Causes antigenic vairation of outer membrane proteins