Oroya fever

disease

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In Carrión disease
…by two distinctive clinical stages: Oroya fever, an acute febrile anemia of rapid onset, with bone and joint pains and a high mortality if untreated; and verruga peruana, a more benign skin eruption characterized by reddish papules and nodules, which usually follows the Oroya fever (within weeks or months) but…
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