Cardiac Whipple disease: Identification of Whipple bacillus by electron microscopy in the myocardium of a patient before death

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 214-216

  Silvestry, Frank E ^a   Kim, Back ^d   Pollack, Bonnie J ^e   Haimowitz, Julia E ^a   Murray, Richard K ^b   Furth, Emma E ^c   Nisenbaum, Harvey L ^a   Kochman, Michael L ^a   Freedman, Neil ^a   Pine, Rogelio ^f   Herrmann, Howard C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d Department of Gastroenterology ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f University Medical Center at Princeton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FIBEROSCOPE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS;

EID: 0031039309     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-126-3-199702010-00006     Document Type: Article

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