Carrion’s disease: more than a neglected disease

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 phase resulting in angiogenic skin lesions (“...

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Autores principales: Garcia-Quintanilla, Meritxell, Dichter, Alexander A., Guerra, Humberto, Kempf, Volkhard A. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30909982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3390-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30909982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-019-3390-2

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