Therapy for whipple's disease

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 457-458

  Knaapen, Hanneke K A ^a   Barrera, Pilar ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atimicrobial therapy; Sulphonamides; Trimethoprim; Tropheryma whipplei

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DOXYCYCLINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PYRIMETHAMINE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SELECTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; Q FEVER; TREATMENT DURATION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 34548136212     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm259     Document Type: Article

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