Cultivation of Tropheryma whipplei from the synovial fluid in Whipple's arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1713-1718

  Puéchal, Xavier ^a   Fenollar, Florence ^b   Raoult, Didier ^b  

^a Le Mans General Hospital   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; CARPAL JOINTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNOVIAL FLUID; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 34248592205     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.22596     Document Type: Article

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