Whipple's disease: A cause of culture-negative endocarditis;Morbus Whipple - En årsag til dyrkningsnegativ endokardit

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 166, Issue 42, 2004, Pages 3731-3732

  Voldstedlund, Marianne ^a   Pedersen, Lisbeth Nørum ^a   Baandrup, Ulrik ^a   Fuursted, Kurt ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DNA 16S; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 6044257579     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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