Tropheryma whippelii endocarditis confirmed by polymerase chain reaction
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Heart Journal
- Vol. 16 (3) , 424-425
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.eurheartj.a060928
Abstract
This report concerns a patient with cardiac manifestation of Whipple's disease. For the first time, the gene that encodes the 16s rRNA of Tropheryma whippelii was identified in a native aortic valve by means of a polymerase chain reaction technique. DNA amplification gives evidence of Tropheryma whippelii as a causative organism in infective endocarditis.Keywords
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