Whipple's disease

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9353, 2003, Pages 239-246

  Marth, Thomas ^a   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a Division of Gastroenterology   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACTINOBACTERIA; ADULTHOOD; ARTHRALGIA; CAUCASIAN; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DUODENUM; EMPIRICISM; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LAMINA PROPRIA; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOCYTE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0037452188     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12274-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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