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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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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2016, vol. 5, num. 1, p. 105

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Carrion's disease: an eradicable illness?