Whipple's disease and central nervous system;Enfermedad de Whipple y sistema nervioso central

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 379-385

  Bermejo, Pedro ^a,b   Burgos, Aurora ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CD11B ANTIGEN; CD2 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

EID: 33750038863     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13092439     Document Type: Article

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