Whipple's disease revisited

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 750-755

  Misbah, S A ^a   Mapstone, N P ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immune system; Polymerase chain reaction; Tropheryma whippelii

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0033775256     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.53.10.750     Document Type: Article

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