Bartonella bacilliformis is a facultative, intracellular, aerobic, Gram-negative coccobacillus causing the so-called Carrión's disease, a human infection endemic to specific areas mainly inhabited by low-income communities of Peru but also present in other Andean communities. It is considered a truly neglected tropical disease and is transmitted through the bite of female sandflies of the genus Lutzomyia [1]. Carrión's disease has two different clinical presentations; an initial febrile and haemolytic anaemia phase, known as Oroya fever, which has a mortality rate ranging from 44% to 88% in untreated patients; and a second phase characterised by the development of dermal eruptions known as Peruvian wart [1,2]. / The study was supported by internal funds from the Universidad Peruana
de Ciencias Aplicadas (Lima, Peru); by a grant from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III,
Spain [PI11/00983], which included FEDER funds; by the UBS Optimus Foundation;
and by Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de
la Informació [2014 SGR 26]. MJP has received a postdoctoral fellowship from
CONCYTEC/FONDECYT. JR has received a fellowship from the program I3 of the
ISCIII [grant no. CES11/012]. / Revisión por pares
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/579762 |
| Date | 15 October 2015 |
| Creators | Silva Caso, Wilmer, J. Ruiz, Del Valle Mendoza, Juana, Pons, Maria J |
| Publisher | Elsevier B.V. |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Académico - UPC |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | http://www.jgaronline.com/article/S2213-7165(15)00060-0/references |
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