Antibiotic resistance in Bartonella bacilliformis clinical isolates from an endemic area of Peru

• Autores: Silva-Caso, W., Pons, M.J., Ruiz, J., del Valle-Mendoza, J.
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia Tecnología e Innovación
• Repositorio: CONCYTEC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.concytec.gob.pe:20.500.12390/1360
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/1360; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2015.05.004
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Priority journal; Antibiotic resistance; Bacterium isolate; Bartonella bacilliformis; DNA extraction; Human; Letter; Minimum inhibitory concentration; Nonhuman; Peru; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.00.00

Bartonella bacilliformis is a facultative, intracellular, aerobic, Gram-negative coccobacillus causing the so-called Carrión's disease, a human infection endemic to specific areas mainly inhabited by low-income communities of Peru but also present in other Andean communities. It is considered a truly neglected tropical disease and is transmitted through the bite of female sandflies of the genus Lutzomyia.