Whipple's disease: The first Japanese case diagnosed by electron microscopy and polymerase chain reaction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 566-570

  Yogi, Tatsuji ^a   Hokama, Akira ^a   Kinjo, Fukunori ^a   Tomiyama, Ryosaku ^a   Koide, Michio ^a   Kishimoto, Kazuto ^a   Makishi, Tomoko ^a   Oshiro, Masaru ^a   Miyagi, Satoru ^a   Kobashigawa, Chiharu ^a   Takaki, Ryo ^a   Nakayama, Takashi ^a   Saito, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Periodic acid Schiff stain; Polymerase chain reaction; Tropheryma whipplei; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DUODENUM; DUODENUM BIOPSY; DUODENUM MUCOSA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; JAPAN; JEJUNUM; LABORATORY TEST; LAMINA PROPRIA; MACROPHAGE; MALE; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CEFTRIAXONE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; JAPAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 4444242622     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.566     Document Type: Article

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