Whipple's disease: A rare disease revisited

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 263-269

  Afshar, Payam ^a   Redfield, David C ^a   Higginbottom, Philip A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Intestinal lipodystrophy; Tropheryma whipplei; Whipple's disease

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PENETRATION; DUODENUM BIOPSY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY; EYE DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LUNG DISEASE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MALABSORPTION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RARE DISEASE; RELAPSE; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SKIN DISEASE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RARE DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 77956264848     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-010-0110-7     Document Type: Article

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