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Carrion's disease: an eradicable illness?
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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
parasitemia, arriving to almost all erythrocytes, and secondary
bacterial infections close related with the development of
transient immunosuppression in the earlier illness phases. In
addition, there are an undefined number of asymptomatic carriers
that are reservoirs of the etiological agent of Carrion's
disease in endemic areas, they make take into account due to
they are the perpetuators of this disease. The actual scenario
of Carrion's disease, in which the illness is arriving to new
areas, due to the expansion of the vector's distribution,
suggests that now may be a crucial time to design a strategy
focusing on its elimination.
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GOMES, Cláudia, et al. Carrion's disease: an eradicable illness?. Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 2016. Vol. 5, num. 1, pags. 105. ISSN 2049-9957. [consulted: 9 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/104545