Diagnosis of Whipple disease by immunohistochemical analysis: A sensitive and specific method for the detection of Tropheryma whipplei (the Whipple bacillus) in paraffin-embedded tissue

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 742-748

  Baisden, Blaire L ^a   Lepidi, Hubert ^b   Raoult, Didier ^b   Argani, Pedram ^a   Yardley, John H ^a   Dumler, J Stephen ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Tropheryma whipplei; Whipple disease

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; PARAFFIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EMBEDDING; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALABSORPTION; PATHOGENESIS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAINING; TISSUE SECTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ACTINOBACTERIA; BRAIN; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMALL INTESTINE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE, SMALL; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0036834442     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/8YGR-FE7L-39LL-L37C     Document Type: Article

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