Carrión's disease: unity of Peruvian wart and Oroya fever
Unidad de la verruga peruana y la fiebre de La Oroya
- Date
- 1885 · confidence high
- Place
- Lima, Peru
- Credited to
- Daniel Alcides Carrión
- People
- 👤 Daniel Alcides Carrión1857–1885
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Student Carrión inoculated himself with blood from a wart and died of Oroya fever, proving that both are phases of the same disease. The agent, Bartonella bacilliformis, was identified by Barton in 1905.
What it led to
- description of bartonellosis
- Peruvian Medicine Day (5 October)