Co-infection with Bartonella bacilliformis and Mycobacterium spp. in a coastal region of Peru

• Autores: Silva-Caso W., Mazulis F., Weilg C., Aguilar-Luis M.A., Sandoval I., Correa-Nuñez G., Li D., Song X., Liu Q., Del Valle-Mendoza J.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2017
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
• Repositorio: CONCYTEC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/555
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/555; https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2977-y
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: isolation and purification; adolescent; adult; aged; Bartonella bacilliformis; bartonellosis; child; epidemic; female; human; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.01

Objective: This study investigated an outbreak of Bartonellosis in a coastal region in Peru.Results: A total of 70 (n = 70) samples with clinical criteria for the acute phase of Bartonellosis and a positive peripheral blood smear were included. 22.85% (n = 16) cases of the samples were positive for Bartonella bacilliformis by PCR and automatic sequencing. Of those positive samples, 62.5% (n = 10) cases were positive only for B. bacilliformis and 37.5% (n = 6) cases were positive to both Mycobacterium spp. and B. bacilliformis. The symptom frequencies were similar in patients diagnosed with Carrion's disease and those co-infected with Mycobacterium spp. The most common symptoms were headaches, followed by malaise and arthralgia.