A case of aortic valve disease associated with Tropheryma whippelii infection in the absence of other signs of Whipple's disease

Infection

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 44-47

  Geissdorfer W ^a   Wittmann, I ^a   Seitz, G ^b   Cesnjevar, R ^a   Rollinghoff M ^a   Schoerner, C ^a   Bogdan, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; PCR; Tropheryma whippelii; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIFAMPICIN;

AGED; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 17744402292     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-001-0135-9     Document Type: Article

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