How to Use relapsing fever in a Sentence

relapsing fever

noun
  • Paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever are still around today but are not as common or as deadly.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The bacteria cause paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever, respectively, which could have contributed to the soldiers’ deaths.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Instead, the soldiers carried bacteria that cause enteric fever and relapsing fever, two diseases that may have hastened the army’s downfall.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Four of the 13 soldiers tested positive for the paratyphoid fever bacterium, while two others tested positive for the relapsing fever bacterium.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The ticks were then tested for five human disease-causing pathogens including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Lyme disease, hard tick relapsing fever and Powassan virus.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The ticks were then tested for five human disease-causing pathogens including anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Lyme disease, hard tick relapsing fever and Powassan virus.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The researchers found the pathogens — Salmonella enterica and Borrelia recurrentis, bacteria that cause paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever, respectively — by analyzing teeth from the fallen soldiers who were found in a mass grave uncovered in 2001 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025

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