Carrión Disease - Peruvian wart - La Oroya Fever

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  • Raúl Rebagliati Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

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https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v17i1.9885

Abstract

Until 1870, endemic in certain localities in the Peruvian Andes intrigued doctors, both Peruvian and foreign. Your ertiología uncertain; its peculiar clinical features, especially red rash, bleeding, tumors consecutively to a incosntante irregular febrile period; their geographical distribution, Limira certain perfectly certain mountain areas; various popular legends concerning its epidemiology; all contributed to the Peruvian Wart considered as mysterious, intangible disease.

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1935-03-18

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Rebagliati R. Carrión Disease - Peruvian wart - La Oroya Fever. An Fac med [Internet]. 1935 Mar. 18 [cited 2024 Aug. 17];17(1):62-128. Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/9885