Antibiotic resistance in Bartonella bacilliformis clinical isolates from an endemic area of Peru
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...
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Elsevier B.V.
2015
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| Online Access: | Silva-Caso W, Pons MJ, Ruiz J, del Valle-Mendoza J, Antibiotic resistance in Bartonella bacilliformis clinical isolates from an endemic area of Peru, Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance (2010), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2015.05.004 http://hdl.handle.net/10757/579762 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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