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urn:hdl:2445/69214 Carrion's disease after blood transfusion Pons, Maria J. Lovato, Pedro Silva, Jaquelyne Urteaga, Numan Valle Mendoza, Juana del Ruiz, Joaquim Malalties emergents Transfusió de sang Andes (Regió) Emerging infectious diseases Blood transfusion Andes Region Bartonella bacilliformis is a pathogen that is endemic in some areas of the Andean region of Peru, southern Ecuador and southern Colombia. This pathogen causes so-called Carrion's disease, a biphasic disease with acute and chronic phases (called Oroya fever and "Peruvian wart" respectively). In the absence or delay of antibiotic treatment, the mortality rate in the acute phase is up to 88%1. The acute phase is characterised by fever and severe anaemia and may be followed, several weeks or months later, by the chronic eruptive phase due to endothelial cell proliferation2. No animal reservoir has been identified to date and it is considered that healthy carriers act as a pathogen reservoir in endemic areas. 2016-02-03T14:41:44Z 2016-02-03T14:41:44Z 2015-11-05 2016-02-02T15:34:42Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.2450/2015.0036-15 Blood Transfusion, 2016, vol. 14, num.6, p. 527-530 http://dx.doi.org/10.2450/2015.0036-15 (c) Edizioni SIMTI, 2015 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Edizioni SIMTI Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)