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 Colombia [1,2].
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Oroya fever and verruga peruana: bartonelloses unique to South America. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2014 Bartonella bacilliformis is the bacterial agent of Carrión's disease and is presumed to be transmitted between humans by phlebotomine sand flies. Carrión's disease is endemic to high-altitude valleys of the South American Andes, and the first reported ...
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Porin A and α/β-hydrolase are necessary and sufficient for hemolysis induced by Bartonella bacilliformis [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsCarrion’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 +11 more
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Bartonella bacilliformis: a systematic review of the literature to guide the research agenda for elimination. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2012 BackgroundCarrion's disease affects small Andean communities in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador and is characterized by two distinct disease manifestations: an abrupt acute bacteraemic illness (Oroya fever) and an indolent cutaneous eruptive condition ...
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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
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Frequencies of Blood Group Systems MNS, Diego, and Duffy and Clinical Phases of Carrion’s Disease in Amazonas, Peru [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2014 Carrion’s disease (CD), is a human bartonellosis, that is, endemic in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Bartonella bacilliformis, a native hemotrophic bacteria, is the causative agent of CD, and the interaction with the host could have produced ...
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Update on tegumentary leishmaniasis and Carrion’s disease vectors in Peru
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2017 Among approximately 190 species of Lutzomyia in Peru, only a small number have been identified as vectors of tegumentary leishmaniasis in Western and inter-Andean valleys. These include L. peruensis, L. verrucarum, L. tejadai, L.
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Bartonelosis (Carrion's Disease) in the pediatric population of Peru: an overview and update [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2004 Bartonellosis, or Carrion's Disease, is an endemic and reemerging disease in Peru and Ecuador. Carrion's Disease constitutes a health problem in Peru because its epidemiology has been changing, and it is affecting new areas between the highland and the ...
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Combination antibiotic therapy is required to eliminate Bartonella henselae in multiple microenvironments [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyBartonella are gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacteria. Infection by Bartonella manifests as different clinical syndromes collectively known as bartonellosis.
Emily L. Olsen, Monica E. Embers
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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.
Gomes C, Ruiz J.
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