Cerebral Whipple's Disease Diagnosed Using PCR: The First Case Reported from Greece

Molecular Diagnosis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 209-211

  Papadopoulou, Marianna ^a   Rentzos, Michael ^a   Nicolaou, Chryssoula ^a   Ioannidou, Vassiliki ^a   Ioannidis, Anastassios ^a   Chatzipanagiotou, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BACTERIAL RNA; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; RNA 16S;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; BRAIN INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL WHIPPLE DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FATALITY; FECES; GREECE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

EID: 2042472129     PISSN: 10848592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03260040     Document Type: Article

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