Tropheryma whippelii DNA is rare in the intestinal mucosa of patients without other evidence of Whipple disease

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 115-119

  Maiwald, M ^a   Von Herbay, A ^a   Persing, D H ^a   Mitchell, P S ^a   Abdelmalek, M F ^a   Thorvilson, J N ^a   Fredricks, D N ^a   Relman, D A ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; PEPTIC ULCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0035895256     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9270(02)05453-9     Document Type: Note

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