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Whipple's Disease: a Macrophage Disease

Author(s) -

Benoît Desnues,

Melanie Ihrig,

Didier Raoult,

JeanLouis Mège

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

clinical and vaccine immunology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.649

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1556-6811

pISSN - 1556-679X

DOI - 10.1128/cvi.13.2.170-178.2006

Subject(s) - lipodystrophy , whipple's disease , disease , medicine , whipple disease , weight loss , gastrointestinal disease , immunology , pathology , obesity , intestinal malabsorption , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , coeliac disease , antiretroviral therapy , viral load

Overview of the DiseaseWhipple's disease (WD) is a rare systemic disease, first described in 1907 by the American pathologist George H. Whipple as an intestinal lipodystrophy. He reported the fatal illness in a patient with weight loss, chronic cough, fever, and accumulation of fat in the intestine

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