A new piece added to the whipple puzzle: Tropheryma whipplei primary infection with bacteremia and cough

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 522-524

  Greub, Gilbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; NOTE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHERYMA; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI;

BACTEREMIA; COUGH; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; SENEGAL; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 77955829979     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655678     Document Type: Note

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