History
The physician David Livingstone is credited with the first account in 1857 of a malady associated with the bite of soft ticks in Angola and Mozambique. In 1904 and 1905 a series of papers outlined the cause of relapsing fever and its relations with ticks. Both J. Everett Dutton and John Todd contracted relapsing fever while performing autopsies while working in the eastern region of the Congo Free State. Dutton died there on February 27, 1905. The cause of tick-borne relapsing fever across central Africa was named Spirillum duttoni. In 1984 it was renamed Borrelia duttoni.
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