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Baculovirus-Assisted Production of Bartonella bacilliformis Proteins: A Potential Strategy for Improving Serological Diagnosis of Carrion’s Disease [PDF]

Pathogens
Carrion’s disease, caused by Bartonella bacilliformis, is a neglected tropical disease prevalent in the Andean region of South America. Without antimicrobial treatment, this disease has a mortality rate of up to 88% in infected patients.
Lizbeth Sally Vilca-Machaca, Karen Daphne Calvay-Sanchez, Yanina Zarate-Sulca, Victor Jimenez-Vasquez, Pablo Ramirez, Giovanna Mendoza-Mujica   +5 more
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Porin A and α/β-hydrolase are necessary and sufficient for hemolysis induced by Bartonella bacilliformis [PDF]

Nature Communications
Carrion’s disease is endemic to the South American Andes and is characterized by fatal hemolytic anemia. This neglected tropical disease is caused by Bartonella bacilliformis, a fastidious and slow-growing pathogen difficult in genetic manipulation.
Alexander A. Dichter, Florian Winklmeier, Diana Munteh, Wibke Ballhorn, Sabrina A. Becker, Beate Averhoff, Halvard Bonig, Adrian Goldman, Meritxell García-Quintanilla, Luis Solis Cayo, Pablo Tsukayama, Volkhard A. J. Kempf   +11 more
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Mutation-Driven Divergence and Convergence Indicate Adaptive Evolution of the Intracellular Human-Restricted Pathogen, Bartonella bacilliformis. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016
Among all species of Bartonella, human-restricted Bartonella bacilliformis is the most virulent but harbors one of the most reduced genomes. Carrión's disease, the infection caused by B.
Sandip Paul, Michael F Minnick, Sujay Chattopadhyay   +2 more
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Molecular Characterization of Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Bartonella bacilliformis. [PDF]

Pathogens, 2021
The presence of amino acid changes in GyrA, GyrB, ParC, ParE, and in a proposed chromosomal chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT), as well as mutations at 23S rRNA, were established by PCR and sequencing in 38 B. bacilliformis clinical isolates from four different areas in Peru.
Mendoza-Mujica G, Flores-León D, Ruiz J.   +2 more
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Colonization of Lutzomyia verrucarum and Lutzomyia longipalpis Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) by Bartonella bacilliformis, the Etiologic Agent of Carrión's Disease. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
Bartonella bacilliformis is a pathogenic bacterium transmitted to humans presumably by bites of phlebotomine sand flies, infection with which results in a bi-phasic syndrome termed Carrión's disease. After constructing a low-passage GFP-labeled strain of
James M Battisti, Phillip G Lawyer, Michael F Minnick   +2 more
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Rapid and sensitive detection of Bartonella bacilliformis in experimentally infected sand flies by loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) of the Pap31 gene. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014
Carrion' disease, caused by Bartonella bacilliformis, remains truly neglected due to its focal geographical nature. A wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, including asymptomatic bacteremia, and lack of a sensitive diagnostic test can potentially ...
Nasikarn Angkasekwinai, Erin H Atkins, Richard N Johnson, John P Grieco, Wei Mei Ching, Chien Chung Chao   +5 more
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Detección de Bartonella bacilliformis usando PCR-RFLP

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 1998
Reportamos la aplicación de las técnicas moleculares PCR-RFLP para la confirmación de infecciones por Bartonella bacilliformis. El método de PCR-RFLP se basa en la amplificación in vitro de un fragmento de 380 pb correspondiente al gen citrato sintetasa ...
C Padilla, C Carrillo, Ellis Barbara, G Ventura, Y Montoya   +4 more
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Identificación de Bartonella bacilliformis por métodos moleculares

Revista Médica Herediana, 2002
Introducción: La técnica de PCR amplifica una secuencia de ADN con la enzima polimerasa; es muy sensible y específica. Objetivo: Estandarizar una técnica de PCR para identificar Bartonella bacilliformis en sangre total de pacientes con bartonelosis aguda.
César Henríquez, Berónica Infante, Jenny Merello, María Gal´Lino, Livia Santivañez, Ciro Maguiña Vargas, Humberto Guerra Allison, Richard Birtles, Palmira Ventosilla   +8 more
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Complete Genome Sequence of Bartonella bacilliformis Strain KC584 (ATCC 35686). [PDF]

Microbiol Resour Announc, 2020
Bartonella bacilliformis is the biological agent of Carrion’s disease, a vector-borne, life-threatening human bartonellosis restricted to South America. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of B. bacilliformis KC584 (ATCC 35686).
Dichter AA, Schultze TG, Becker SA, Tsukayama P, Kempf VAJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Species diversity and detection of pathogens in phlebotomine sand flies collected from forest management areas of Quintana Roo, Mexico

Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 845-858, December 2023., 2023
We compared sand fly communities of a forest reserve with those of forest management areas in Mexico to determine their species diversity (α and β) and determined peaks of activity. During the windy and dry season, the abundance of anthropophilic sand fly species is negatively correlated with the temperature and positively correlated with relative ...
Maribel Martínez‐Burgos, Yokomi N. Lozano‐Sardaneta, Jorge J. Rodríguez‐Rojas, Ángel S. Gómez‐Rivera, Karla L. Canto‐Mis, Eduardo Flores‐Escobar, Pedro C. Mis‐Ávila, Fabián Correa‐Morales, Ingeborg Becker   +8 more
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