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PRO/EDR> Bartonella quintana – USA: (CO) homeless

Bartonella -- United StatesDr. Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UC Health University of Colorado Hospital, received an unusual call in June 2020 from the microbiology lab: Confirmation of the 3rd case in 2020 of trench fever, a rare condition transmitted by body lice that plagued soldiers during World War I.Barron's epidemiological training kicked in. "Two is always an outbreak, and then when we found a 3rd, OK, we clearly have something going on," Barron recalled Read more [...]