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

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

Maria J Pons  1 , Cláudia Gomes  2 , Juana Del Valle-Mendoza  1   3 , Joaquim Ruiz  1   2
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Carrion's Disease: More Than a Sand Fly-Vectored Illness

Maria J Pons et al. PLoS Pathog. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. B. bacilliformis transmission routes.
1 Humans are the only known reservoir. 2 Despite a report by Noguchi et al [6], no confirmatory result has been published.
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