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Diagnosis of Carrion's disease by direct blood PCR in thin blood smear negative samples.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Bartonella bacilliformis is the etiologic agent of Carrion's disease. This disease has two well established phases, the most relevant being the so called Oroya Fever, in which B.
Juana del Valle Mendoza, Wilmer Silva Caso, Carmen Tinco Valdez, Maria J Pons, Luis J del Valle, Verónica Casabona Oré, Denisse Champin Michelena, Jorge Bazán Mayra, Víctor Zavaleta Gavidea, Martha Vargas, Joaquim Ruiz   +10 more
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A bacteriophage-like particle from Bartonella bacilliformis [PDF]

Microbiology, 2000
Bartonella bacilliformis and Bartonella henselae, the respective agents of Oroya fever and cat-scratch disease in humans, are known to produce bacteriophage-like particles (BLPs) that package 14 kbp segments of the host chromosome. Data from this study suggest that other Bartonella species including Bartonella quintana, Bartonella doshiae and ...
Kent D, Barbian, Michael F, Minnick
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The protein–protein interactions required for assembly of the Tn3 resolution synapse

Molecular Microbiology, Volume 114, Issue 6, Page 952-965, December 2020., 2020
The site‐specific recombinase Tn3 resolvase builds an intricate protein‐DNA complex (synapse) prior to cutting and rejoining DNA strands. We used a novel complementation strategy involving hybrids of Tn3 resolvase and a related enzyme, Bart resolvase, to show that a specific protein‐protein “R” interface is used by all the DNA‐bound resolvase dimers in
Sally‐J. Rowland, Martin R. Boocock, Mary E. Burke, Phoebe A. Rice, W. Marshall Stark   +4 more
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Revisiting Bartonella bacilliformis MLST

Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 2018
All the studies published including Bartonella bacilliformis MLST data, as well as all B. bacilliformis genomes present in GenBank were analyzed. Overall 64 isolates and their geographical distribution were analyzed, and 14 different MLST patterns were observed. The results highlight the need for expanding the MLST studies and adding a higher number of
Joaquim Ruiz, Maria J. Pons
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DEMONSTRATION OF AGGLUTININS FOR BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1942
1. Methods of preparing a satisfactory antigen having been developed, a technique for performing an agglutination test with B. bacilliformis is made available. 2. As a result of repeated intravenous injection of living cultures of B. bacilliformis at short intervals, rabbits have been found to produce a high titre of specific agglutinins
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Transformation of Bartonella bacilliformis by electroporation

Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 1994
Bartonella bacilliformis is a member of the order Rickettsiales, family Bartonellaceae. The bacterium is an intracellular parasite of human erythrocytes. To date, members of the family Bartonellaceae have not been transformed by standard chemical methods.
H A, Grasseschi, M F, Minnick
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Carrion’s disease: more than a neglected disease

Parasites & Vectors, 2019
Infections with Bartonella bacilliformis result in Carrion’s disease in humans. In the first phase of infection, the pathogen causes a hemolytic fever (“Oroya fever”) with case-fatality rates as high as ~90% in untreated patients, followed by a chronical
Meritxell Garcia-Quintanilla, Alexander A. Dichter, Humberto Guerra, Volkhard A. J. Kempf   +3 more
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Comparison of sand fly trapping approaches for vector surveillance of Leishmania and Bartonella species in ecologically distinct, endemic regions of Peru.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021
BackgroundIn Peru, the information regarding sand fly vectors of leishmaniasis and bartonellosis in the Amazon region is limited. In this study, we carried out sand fly collections in Peruvian lowland and highland jungle areas using different trap type ...
Victor O Zorrilla, Marisa E Lozano, Liz J Espada, Michael Kosoy, Clifton McKee, Hugo O Valdivia, Heriberto Arevalo, Mario Troyes, Craig A Stoops, Michael L Fisher, Gissella M Vásquez   +10 more
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Succinyl-CoA Synthetase: New Antigen Candidate of Bartonella bacilliformis. [PDF]

PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2016
Bartonella bacilliformis is the causative agent of Carrion's disease, a neglected illness with mortality rates of 40-85% in the absence of treatment. The lack of a diagnostic technique to overcome misdiagnosis and treat asymptomatic carriers is of note. This study aimed to identify new B.
Gomes C, Palma N, Pons MJ, Magallón-Tejada A, Sandoval I, Tinco-Valdez C, Gutarra C, Del Valle-Mendoza J, Ruiz J, Matsuoka M.   +9 more
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Identification of outer membrane proteins of Bartonella bacilliformis [PDF]

Infection and Immunity, 1994
Purification of the outer membrane of Bartonella bacilliformis by sucrose step gradient centrifugation and analysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) suggest that 14 proteins, ranging from 11.2 to 75.3 kDa, are located in the outer membrane of the pathogen.
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