Genotyping reveals a wide heterogeneity of Tropheryma whipplei

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 521-527

  Li, Wenjun ^a   Fenollar, Florence ^a   Rolain, Jean Marc ^a   Fournier, Pierre Edouard ^a   Feurle, Gerhard E ^b   Müller, Christian ^c   Moos, Verena ^b   Marth, Thomas ^d   Altwegg, Martin ^e   Calligaris Maibach, Romana C ^f   Schneider, Thomas ^g   Biagi, Federico ^h   La Scola, Bernard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b DRK Krankenhaus Neuwied   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d St Josef Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^e Bio Analytica Ag ^*  (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DISEAE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI;

EID: 39749111335     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/011668-0     Document Type: Article

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