Carrion's Disease: More Than a Sand Fly-Vectored Illness. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2016 Carrion’s disease is a biphasic illness (S1 Fig) caused by an infection of Bartonella bacilliformis, a bacterium that is transmitted through bites of certain phlebotomine sand flies in the Andean valleys of Peru and in some areas of Ecuador and southern ...
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Carrion's disease after blood transfusion. [PDF]
Blood Transfus, 2016 Bartonella bacilliformis is a pathogen that is endemic in some areas of the Andean region of Peru, southern Ecuador and southern Colombia. This pathogen causes so-called Carrion's disease, a biphasic disease with acute and chronic phases (called Oroya ...
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Carrion’s disease: more than a neglected disease [PDF]
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
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Carrion's disease: an eradicable illness? [PDF]
Infect Dis Poverty, 2016 Carrion's disease is a neglected tropical disease caused by Bartonella bacilliformis, a vector-borne pathogen restricted to the Andean valleys of Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
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Immunosuppressive and angiogenic cytokine profile associated with Bartonella bacilliformis infection in post-outbreak and endemic areas of Carrion's disease in Peru. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017 Analysis of immune responses in Bartonella bacilliformis carriers are needed to understand acquisition of immunity to Carrion's disease and may allow identifying biomarkers associated with bacterial infection and disease phases.
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An unidentified cluster of infection in the Peruvian Amazon region [PDF]
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015 Introduction: Bartonella bacilliformis is the etiological agent of Carrion’s disease, which is a neglected disease linked to people in low-socioeconomic populations in Andean valleys. An outbreak of B.
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Succinyl-CoA Synthetase: New Antigen Candidate of Bartonella bacilliformis. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 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 ...
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Diagnosis of Carrion's disease by direct blood PCR in thin blood smear negative samples. [PDF]
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.
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Carrion's Disease: the Sound of Silence. [PDF]
Clin Microbiol Rev, 2018 SUMMARYCarrion's disease (CD) is a neglected biphasic vector-borne illness related toBartonella bacilliformis. It is found in the Andean valleys and is transmitted mainly by members of theLutzomyiagenus but also by blood transfusions and from mother to child. The acute phase, Oroya fever, presents severe anemia and fever.
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Baculovirus-Assisted Production of Bartonella bacilliformis Proteins: A Potential Strategy for Improving Serological Diagnosis of Carrion’s Disease [PDF]
PathogensCarrion’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.
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