Whipple's disease: Multiple hospital admissions of a man with diarrhoea, fever and arthralgia

Journal of Infection

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Magira, Eleni E ^a,b   Gounaris, Theodore ^a   Sioula, Evangelia ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Arthralgia; Diarrhoea; Fatigue; Tropheryma whippelii

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENTERITIS; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HISTIOCYTOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRALGIA; CEFTRIAXONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DUODENOSCOPY; DUODENUM; FEVER; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODIC ACID-SCHIFF REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 22144437309     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2004.08.010     Document Type: Article

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