Molecular techniques in Whipple's disease

Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 299-309

  Fenollar, Florence ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Culture; Duodenal biopsy; Immunohistology; LightCycle; PAS staining; PCR treatment; Whipple's desease; Whipplei

Indexed keywords

RABBIT ANTISERUM; SCHIFF BASE;

BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FEVER; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYARTHRITIS; REVIEW; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0035559461     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737159.1.3.299     Document Type: Review

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