title: Novel Bartonella agent as cause of verruga peruana.
abstract: While studying chronic verruga peruana infections in Peru from 2003, we isolated a novel Bartonella agent, which we propose be named Candidatus Bartonella ancashi. This case reveals the inherent weakness of relying solely on clinical syndromes for diagnosis and underscores the need for a new diagnostic paradigm in developing settings.
authors.affiliation: Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20910, USA. da_blazes@hotmail.com
authors.forename: David L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Blazes
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mullins
authors.forename: Bonnie L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Smoak
authors.forename: Ju
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Canal
authors.forename: Nelson
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Solorzano
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Rina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meza
authors.forename: Ciro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maguina
authors.forename: Todd
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Myers
authors.forename: Allen L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Laughlin
mesh_terms: D001473:Bartonella / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001474:Bartonella Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D025202:Molecular Diagnostic Techniques; D058885:Multilocus Sequence Typing; D010802:Phylogeny; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
keywords: Bartonella; Bartonellosis; Candidatus Bartonella ancashi; Peru; bacteria; emerging infection; pathogen discovery; vector-borne infections; verruga peruana