Tropheryma whipplei: A common bacterium in rural senegal

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Keita, Alpha Kabinet ^a   Bassene, Hubert ^b   Tall, Adama ^c   Sokhna, Cheikh ^b   Ratmanov, Pavel ^a,d   Trape, Jean François ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,b   Fenollar, Florence ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^d FAR EASTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENEGAL; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WESTERN BLOTTING; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FECES; HETEROZYGOTE; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SALIVA; SERUM; TROPHERYMA;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RURAL POPULATION; SALIVA; SENEGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SERUM; TROPHERYMA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855284662     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001403     Document Type: Article

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