Potential Role for Urine Polymerase Chain Reaction in the Diagnosis of Whipple’s Disease

BACKGROUND: Whipple’s disease (WD) is a rare infection with Tropheryma whipplei that is fatal if untreated. Diagnosis is challenging and currently based on invasive sampling. In a case of WD diagnosed from a kidney biopsy, we observed morphologically-intact bacteria within the glomerular capsular sp...

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Autores principales: Moter, Annette, Janneck, Matthias, Wolters, Manuel, Iking-Konert, Christof, Wiessner, Alexandra, Loddenkemper, Christoph, Hartleben, Björn, Lütgehetmann, Marc, Schmidt, Julia, Langbehn, Ulrike, Janssen, Sabrina, Geelhaar-Karsch, Anika, Schneider, Thomas, Moos, Verena, Rohde, Holger, Kikhney, Judith, Wiech, Thorsten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6424077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30351371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy664

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