Systemic Tropheryma whippleii Infection Associated with Monoclonal B-Cell Proliferation: A Helicobacter pylori-Type Pathogenesis?

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1619-1622

  Wang, Sa ^a   Ernst, Linda M ^a   Smith, Brian R ^a   Tallini, Giovanni ^a   Howe, John G ^a   Crouch, Jill ^a   Cooper, Dennis L ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD20 ANTIGEN; CD5 ANTIGEN; COMMON ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ANTIGEN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PROTEIN BCL 2; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; PATHOGENESIS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONE CELLS; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0345600096     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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