Epidemiologic implications of the first isolation and cultivation of Tropheryma whipplei from a saliva sample

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 154, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 443-444

  La Scola, Bernard ^a   Fenollar, Florence ^a   Perreal, Céline ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIARRHEA; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

EID: 79952820858     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-154-6-201103150-00018     Document Type: Letter

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