Whipple disease

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 470-475

  Louis, Elan D ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GAMMA INTERFERON; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOSE RESPONSE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GAZE PARALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MICROSCOPY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RARE DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 1542704009     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-003-0049-2     Document Type: Review

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