Garcia-Quintanilla, Meritxell; Dichter, Alexander A.; Guerra, Humberto; Kempf, Volkhard A. J.
(BioMed Central, 2019)
Infections with Bartonella bacilliformis result in Carrion's disease in humans. In the first phase of infection, the pathogen causes a hemolytic fever ("Oroya fever") with case-fatality rates as high as ~90% in untreated ...