A paradoxical tropheryma whipplei western blot differentiates patients with whipple disease from asymptomatic carriers

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 717-723

  Fenollar, Florence ^a   Amphoux, Bernard ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLYCOSYLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER STATE; FECES; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 70149093926     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/604717     Document Type: Article

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