Whipple's disease;Maladie de Whipple

Revue de Medecine Interne

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 233-241

  Puechal X ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DU MANS   (France)

Author keywords

Culture; Polymerase chain reaction; Tropheryma whipplei; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; DIARRHEA; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; JEJUNUM BIOPSY; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; POLYARTHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT SURVEY; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CEFIXIME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENCE; SEX FACTORS; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TIME FACTORS; TRIMETHOPRIM; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 60549102082     PISSN: 02488663     EISSN: 17683122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revmed.2008.06.020     Document Type: Short Survey

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