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Tropheryma whippleiBacteremia during Fever in Rural West Africa
Author(s) -
Florence Fenollar,
Oleg Mediannikov,
Cristina Socolovschi,
Hubert Bassène,
Georges Diatta,
Hervé Richet,
Adama Tall,
Cheikh Sokhna,
JeanFrançois Trape,
Didier Raoult
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/655677
Subject(s) - tropheryma whipplei , whipple disease , medicine , bacteremia , pneumonia , malaria , whipple's disease , pathogen , microbiology and biotechnology , immunology , virology , disease , biology , antibiotics , coeliac disease , intestinal malabsorption
Tropheryma whipplei not only causes Whipple disease but also is an emerging pathogen associated with gastroenteritis and pneumonia that is commonly detected in stool samples in rural West Africa. We investigated the role of T. whipplei in febrile patients from rural Senegal who had a negative test result for malaria.

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