Culture ofT. whippleifrom the Stool of a Patient with Whipple's Disease
- 5 October 2006
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 355 (14) , 1503-1505
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc061049
Abstract
Tropheryma whipplei (formerly T. whippelii) causes Whipple's disease, an infectious disorder involving the digestive tract.1 The organism can be seen within macrophages in the duodenum, but T. whipplei was first isolated from specimens of human mitral valve.1 Molecular analysis of stool samples with the use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has shown DNA of T. whipplei in patients with Whipple's disease. The DNA of the organism has also been found in unaffected people2 and in wastewater samples.2,3Keywords
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