Successful treatment of Whipple disease diagnosed 36 years after symptom onset

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1063-1066

  Caples, Sean M ^a   Petrovic, Lydia M ^a   Ryu, Jay H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

MCV = mean corpuscular volume; PAS = periodic acid Schiff; PCR = polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FATIGUE; FEVER; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALABSORPTION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0034773994     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4065/76.10.1063     Document Type: Article

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