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Whipple's Disease

BACKGROUND: Whipple's disease (WD) is rarely the cause of a malabsorption syndrome. The disease is a chronic infection of the intestinal mucosa with the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, which leads to a lymphostasis with an impaired absorption of the nutrition. Due to its low incidence (1:1,000,0...

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Autores principales: Obst, Wilfried, von Arnim, Ulrike, Malfertheiner, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger Verlag für Medizin und Naturwissenschaften GmbH 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26288590
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000363781