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La erupción en la enfermedad de Carrión (verruga peruana).

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Monitor méd., 10, 309-11. 1895 CE.

“Carrion’s disease” (Oroya fever) was named by the Peruvian physician Ernesto Odriozola, after Daniel Alcides Carrión Garcia (1859-85), a student. In order to prove or disprove the connection between Oroya fever and verruga peruana Carrión had himself inoculated with blood from a patient suffering from verruga peruana, and later died of the disease.

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