Postoperative panophthalmitis caused by whipple disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 825-827

  Raoult, Didier ^a,b   Drancourt, Michel ^c   Fenollar, Florence ^c   Denis, Daniele ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE MARSEILLE   (France)

^c Université de la Méditerranée ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; DNA 16S; DOXYCYCLINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; VIRUS DNA;

AGED; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LENS IMPLANT; LETTER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PANOPHTHALMITIS; PARACENTESIS; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; PANOPHTHALMITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPHERYMA; VITREOUS BODY; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 66149119758     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.081209     Document Type: Letter

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