Polymerase chain reaction analysis for diagnosis of Tropheryma whippelii infective endocarditis in two patients with no previous evidence of Whipple's disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1348-1349

  Célard, Marie ^a   De Gevigney, Guy ^a   Mosnier, Stéphanie ^a   Buttard, Patrick ^b   Benito, Yvonne ^a   Etienne, Jerome ^a   Vandenesch, François ^a  

^a LOUIS PRADEL HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Chalon sur Saone   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN;

ADULT; ANNULOPLASTY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

EID: 0033512476     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313477     Document Type: Article

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