Whipple arthritis: Diagnosis by molecular analysis of synovial fluid - Current status of diagnosis and therapy

Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 473-480

  Lange, U ^b   Teichmann, J ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KERCKHOFF HEART CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actinomycete; Infectious disease; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; FOLIC ACID; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXITIS; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; INVALIDITY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PATIENT CARE; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNOVIAL FLUID; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0345268684     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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