Carrion's Disease: More Than a Sand Fly-Vectored Illness

Maria J Pons; Cláudia Gomes; Juana Del Valle-Mendoza; Joaquim Ruiz

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1005863

Carrion's Disease: More Than a Sand Fly-Vectored Illness

PLoS Pathog. 2016 Oct 13;12(10):e1005863. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005863. eCollection 2016 Oct.

Authors

Maria J Pons¹, Cláudia Gomes², Juana Del Valle-Mendoza^{1

3}, Joaquim Ruiz^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Research Center and Innovation of the Health Sciences Faculty, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Peru.
² ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
³ Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Bartonella Infections / epidemiology*
Bartonella Infections / transmission*
Bartonella bacilliformis / pathogenicity*
Humans
Insect Vectors / microbiology*
Peru / epidemiology
Psychodidae / microbiology*

Grants and funding

This study has been funded by the Programa Nacional de Innovación para la Competitividad y Productividad (Innóvate Perú) under the contract 117-PNICP-PIAP-2015. JR has a fellowship from the program I3, of the ISCIII [grant number: CES11/012]. CG has a PhD fellowship of the ISCIII (FI12/00561). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.