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Carrion’s disease: an eradicable illness?

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 par...

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Autores principales: Gomes, Cláudia, Pons, Maria J., del Valle Mendoza, Juana, Ruiz, Joaquim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5131403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27903286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0197-7