- Borrelia duttonii
- an etiologic agent of tick-borne relapsing fever in Central and Southern Africa, carried by the tick Ornithodoros moubata, which transmits the microorganism from human to human in its saliva.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Borrelia duttonii
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