Objective
This study investigated an outbreak of Bartonellosis in a coastal region in Peru.
Results
A total of 70 (n = 70) samples with clinical criteria for the acute phase of Bartonellosis and a positive peripheral blood smear were included. 22.85% (n = 16) cases of the samples were positive for Bartonella bacilliformis by PCR and automatic sequencing. Of those positive samples, 62.5% (n = 10) cases were positive only for B. bacilliformis and 37.5% (n = 6) cases were positive to both Mycobacterium spp. and B. bacilliformis. The symptom frequencies were similar in patients diagnosed with Carrion’s disease and those co-infected with Mycobacterium spp. The most common symptoms were headaches, followed by malaise and arthralgia.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/622482 |
| Date | 01 December 2017 |
| Creators | Silva-Caso, Wilmer, Mazulis, Fernando, Weilg, Claudia, Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel, Sandoval, Isabel, Correa-Nuñez, German, Li, Dongmei, Song, Xiuping, Liu, Qiyong, del Valle-Mendoza, Juana |
| Publisher | BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-017-2977-y |
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