Arthralgia and blood culture-negative endocarditis in middle Age Men suggest tropheryma whipplei infection: report of two cases and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Whipple’s disease is a rare, often multisystemic chronic infectious disease caused by the rod-shaped bacterium Tropheryma whipplei. Very rarely the heart is involved in the process of the disease, leading to culture-negative infective endocarditis. Up to 20 % of all infective endocarditi...

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Autores principales: Alozie, Anthony, Zimpfer, Annette, Köller, Kerstin, Westphal, Bernd, Obliers, Annette, Erbersdobler, Andreas, Steinhoff, Gustav, Podbielski, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539700/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26282628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-1078-6

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