Tropheryma whipplei aortic valve endocarditis without systemic Whipple's disease

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Chan, Vincent ^a   Wang, Bing ^b   Veinot, John P ^b   Suh, Kathryn N ^b   Rose, Gregory ^b   Desjardins, Marc ^b   Mesana, Thierry G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic valve; Endocarditis; Whipple's

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; HEPARIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART MURMUR; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WHIPPLE ENDOCARDITIS OF THE AORTIC VALVE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; CEFTRIAXONE; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 80054913361     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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