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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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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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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One hundred years after the expedition by Harvard University to Peru to investigate Carrion’s disease. Lessons for science [PDF]
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina, 2016 In 1913, around 100 years ago, the Harvard University sent an expedition to Peru, led by Richard Strong, to investigate Carrion’s disease. This paper provides a critical review of the scientific research carried out in this expedition. Richard Strong was
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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