Intrafamilial circulation of tropheryma whipplei, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 949-955

  Fenollar, Florence ^a   Keita, Alpha K ^a   Buffet, Sylvain ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELATIVE; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FECES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SALIVA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TROPHERYMA; WHIPPLE DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861217058     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1806.111038     Document Type: Article

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