Case Report: A Retrospective Serological Analysis Indicating Human Exposure to Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Spirochetes in Texas
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1 Department of Pediatrics, Section of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 Texas State Guard, Medical Brigade, Uvalde, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America, 4 Department of Chemistry, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America
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