Culture of T. whipplei from the stool of a patient with Whipple's disease [17]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1503-1505

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Fenollar, Florence ^a   Birg, Marie Laure ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISINFECTION; DUODENUM BIOPSY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ADULT; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 33749452587     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc061049     Document Type: Letter

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