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Whipple's endocarditis is a rare but treatable infectious disease. We discuss the diagnostic work-up of a case lacking classic endocarditis features. Current challenges in diagnosis and treatment of this under-recognized infection are highlighted.
Julia R. Naso +4 more
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ESCMID postgraduate technical workshop on intracellular bacteria: from biology to clinic. [PDF]
Infection by intracellular bacteria can lead to several diseases in both veterinary and human medicine. Unfortunately, the biology of these intracellular bacteria is highly complex due to their interactions with their host cells.
Greub, G., Pilloux, L.
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Innate immune response in avian macrophages elicited by Chlamydia psittaci [PDF]
Chlamydia psittaci is a gram-negative, obligate, intracellular bacterium, which mainly infects birds and mammals. Not much is known about innate immunity initiated by C. psittaci.
Lagae, Stefanie, Vanrompay, Daisy
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Mechanisms Underlying HIV Associated Non-infectious Lung Disease [PDF]
Pulmonary disease remains a primary source of morbidity and mortality in persons living with HIV (PLWH), although the advent of potent combination antiretroviral therapy has resulted in a shift from predominantly infectious to noninfectious pulmonary ...
Atkinson, Jeffrey J. +9 more
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Multicentric Castleman's disease as a cause for unclear febrile episodes in a 55-year-old HIV-infected man [PDF]
Our case illustrates the difficulties involved in diagnosing multicentric Castleman's disease (MCD) in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected man with febrile episodes and malaise. In the absence of well-established treatment protocols, we have chosen a
Achermann, Y. +4 more
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Tropheryma whipplei: A Common Bacterium in Rural Senegal
Tropheryma whipplei is known as the cause of Whipple's disease, but it is also an emerging pathogen, detected in stool, that causes various chronic localized infections without histological digestive involvement and is associated with acute infections, including gastroenteritis and bacteremia.We conducted a study in 2008 and 2009 using 497 non ...
Keita, Alpha Kabinet +7 more
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Whipple’s disease: a fatal mimic
Whipple’s Disease, a rare diagnosis caused by the slow-growing bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, most often presents with the classically described signs of malabsorption due to gastrointestinal colonization.
Benjamin Kukull +3 more
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Severe Hypothermia in a Patient withCerebral Relapse of Whipple's Disease [PDF]
. : The diagnosis of cerebral relapse of Whipple's disease in a 67-year-old patient was made after he presented with somnolence and severe hypothermia 4 months after discontinuing treatment with cotrimoxazole.
Brandner, S. +5 more
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Introduction: Whipple’s disease is a rare condition that can present with atypical and non-specific features requiring a high index of suspicion for diagnosis.
Arteen Arzivian +6 more
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Discovery and biological characteristics of Mimivirus [PDF]
Otkriće Mimivirusa (Acanthamoeba polyfaga mimivirus, APMV) potaknulo je velik interes znanstvenika za daljnje otkrivanje značajki, funkcija i same pojave velikih virusa čiji bi APMV mogao biti prvi predstavnik.
Sumpor, Danijel
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