Whipple's disease and "Tropheryma whippelii"

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 561-583

  Dutly, F ^a   Altwegg, M ^a  

^a IMD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ERADICATION THERAPY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; TROPHERYMA; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0034946098     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.14.3.561-583.2001     Document Type: Review

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