Whipple's disease. Case report;Whippleova choroba

Ceska a Slovenska Gastroenterologie a Hepatologie

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 169-172

  Buňatová, Marcela ^a   Daum, Ondřej ^b   Němcová, Jana ^b   Chudáček, Zdeněk ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Electronmicroscopy; Malabsorption syndrome; PCR; Tropheryma whipplei; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALABSORPTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

EID: 33845965339     PISSN: 1213323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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