Barton body disease

Bartonella disease is an infection caused by Bacillus-like Bartonella and is commonly called human Bartonella. Since Peru's Daniel Carrion first reported the symptoms and signs of the disease in 1855, it was also called Carrion disease. Paeonia lactiflora is the medium of transmission. When an infected paeonia bites a healthy person, the pathogen can enter the body and reproduce in the blood, and then adhere to the red blood cell membrane, making it more brittle and causing hemolysis. There are two distinct stages in clinical manifestations, namely Oroya fever with acute fever and hemolytic anemia and verruga peruana with skin lesions.

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