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SUBMITTER: Hambuch TM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC497641 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hambuch Tina M TM Handley Scott A SA Ellis Barbara B Chamberlin Judith J Romero Sofia S Regnery Russell R
Journal of clinical microbiology 20040801 8
Carrion's disease is caused by infection with the alpha-proteobacterium Bartonella bacilliformis. Distribution of the disease is considered coincident with the distribution of its known vector, the sand fly Lutzomyia verrucarum. Recent epidemics of B. bacilliformis infections associated with atypical symptomatology in nonendemic regions have raised questions regarding the historic and present distribution of this bacterium and the scope of disease that infection causes. Phylogenetic relationship ...[more]