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 fever and "Peruvian wart" respectively1-3).
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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. Carrion's disease is a biphasic illness; in the acute phase the case-fatality rate can be as high as 88 %, related to high parasitemia, arriving to almost all erythrocytes, and ...
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Phlebotomine sand fly fauna characterization and Bartonella bacilliformis DNA detection in Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) robusta at the Ecuador-Peru frontier. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesPhlebotomine sand flies are blood-sucking dipterans widely distributed in tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas and are important vectors of leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania spp.
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Prioritisation of potential drug targets against Bartonella bacilliformis by an integrative in-silico approach [PDF]
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2020 BACKGROUND Carrion’s disease (CD) is a neglected biphasic illness caused by Bartonella bacilliformis, a Gram-negative bacteria found in the Andean valleys.
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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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ZOONOTIC BARTONELLOSIS: IS IT THRERATING TO THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES? [PDF]
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2023 Bartonellosis is a group of emerging and re-emerging bacteria of Bartonella genus with worldwidedistribution. Bartonella species cause diseases such as Carrión's disease, trench fever, catscratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, peliosis hepatis, chronic
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Evaluation of PCR Approaches for Detection of Bartonella bacilliformis in Blood Samples. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 BACKGROUND:The lack of an effective diagnostic tool for Carrion's disease leads to misdiagnosis, wrong treatments and perpetuation of asymptomatic carriers living in endemic areas. Conventional PCR approaches have been reported as a diagnostic technique.
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An unidentified cluster of infection in the Peruvian Amazon region
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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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.
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The Lancet Microbe, 2021 Summary: Background: Bartonella bacilliformis is the aetiological agent of Carrión's disease, a biphasic and highly lethal illness formerly restricted to the South American Andes that is now spreading to adjacent areas.
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