Immunohistological detection of Tropheryma whipplei (Whipple bacillus) in lymph nodes

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 334-336

  Lepidi, Hubert ^b   Costedoat, Nathalie ^c   Piette, Jean Charles ^c   Harlé, Jean Robert ^d   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^d HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN; PEROXIDASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENTEROPATHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

EID: 0036702237     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01174-9     Document Type: Article

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