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Infections by the genus BARTONELLA. Bartonella bacilliformis can cause acute febrile anemia, designated Oroya fever, and a benign skin eruption, called verruga peruana. BARTONELLA QUINTANA causes TRENCH FEVER, while BARTONELLA HENSELAE is the etiologic agent of bacillary angiomatosis (ANGIOMATOSIS, BACILLARY) and is also one of the causes of CAT-SCRATCH DISEASE in immunocompetent patients.

A chronic endemic, specific, irregular f. with severe anemia found in the Peruvian Andes. A parasite, Bartonella bacilliformis, is found in the blood and visceral lesions.

Another name for a skin disease called verruca peruviana.