Whipple's disease with isolated central nervous system symptomatology diagnosed by molecular identification of Tropheryma whippelii in peripheral blood;La enfermedad de Whipple con sintomatologia aislada del sistema nervioso central diagnosticada por identificacion molecular de Tropheryma whippelii en sangre periferica

Neurologia

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 173-176

  Coria, F ^a,b   Cuadrado, N ^a   Velasco, C ^a   Jimenez Carmena J J ^a   Jimenez M I ^a   Mena, F J ^a   Acebes, J M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RÍO HORTEGA   (Spain)

^b Josep Tous i Ferrer   (Spain)

Author keywords

Central nervous system infections; Molecular diagnosis; PCR; Tropheryma whippelii; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0034121010     PISSN: 02134853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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