Progressive dementia associated with ataxia or obesity in patients with Tropheryma whipplei encephalitis

BACKGROUND: Tropheryma whipplei, the agent of Whipple's disease, causes localised infections in the absence of histological digestive involvement. Our objective is to describe T. whipplei encephalitis. METHODS: We first diagnosed a patient presenting dementia and obesity whose brain biopsy and...

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Autores principales: Fenollar, Florence, Nicoli, François, Paquet, Claire, Lepidi, Hubert, Cozzone, Patrick, Antoine, Jean-Christophe, Pouget, Jean, Raoult, Didier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3141410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676235
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-171

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