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Frontiers in Neurology, 2017 Whipple’s disease, a rare systemic infectious disorder, is complicated by the involvement of the central nervous system in about 5% of cases. Oscillations of the eyes and the jaw, called oculo-masticatory myorhythmia, are pathognomonic of the central ...
Aasef G. Shaikh +5 more
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Oldest Old Mortality in China [PDF]
We find that the Kannisto model, a two-parameter logistic formula, fits Han Chinese death rates at oldest-old ages better than the Gompertz and four other models. Chinese death rates appear to be roughly similar to Swedish and Japanese rates after age 97
James W. Vaupel, Yi Zeng
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Etiologic Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis by Broad-Range Polymerase Chain Reaction: A 3-Year Experience [PDF]
, 2017 We analyzed surgically resected endocardial specimens from 49 patients by broad-range PCR. PCR results were compared with (1) results of previous blood cultures, (2) results of culture and Gram staining of resected specimens, and (3) clinical data (Duke ...
Altwegg, Martin +5 more
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Aqueductal stenosis secondary to Whipple’s disease
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2013 We present a 54-year old male with a history of Whipple’s Disease (WD) diagnosed 21 years previously and proven by an inguinal lymph node biopsy. Antibiotic therapy was initiated upon confirmation of gastrointestinal (GI) involvement via colonoscopy.
F Chiang +4 more
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Isolation and identification of Bacillus strains with antimycobacterial activity [PDF]
, 2011 Tuberculosis is the principal cause of death worldwide due to an infectious disease. The resurgence of tuberculosis, followed by the increase in prevalence of infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), as well as the multi-drug resistance ...
Abdellah, Houari +6 more
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Rare but Not so Rare? The Evolving Spectrum of Whipple's Disease
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2012 Knowledge about Whipple's disease began to emerge in 1907, when George Hoyt Whipple recognized the first case of the disease that now bears his name.
John M Conly, B Lynn Johnston
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Back from the brink of obscurity
eLife, 2018 A mutation in a transcription factor makes people susceptible to Tropheryma whipplei, the bacterium that causes a rare condition called Whipple's disease.
Donald C Vinh
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae false-positive result obtained from a pharyngeal swab by using the roche cobas 4800 CT/NG assay in New Zealand in 2012 [PDF]
, 2013 The Roche cobas 4800 CT/NG assay is a commonly used commercial system for screening for Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection, and previous studies have shown the method to be highly sensitive and specific for urogenital samples. We present the first confirmed
A. Upton +13 more
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Annual Reports to the ESA Council ESA 110th Annual Meeting July, 2025
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
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An Incidental Finding of Whipple’s Disease Masquerading as Nonspecific, Long-Standing Symptoms
Case Reports in Infectious DiseasesWhipple’s disease is a rare bacterial infection that is often present for years prior to diagnosis. Symptoms are nonspecific in the early stages of presentation and are primarily gastrointestinal in nature.
Thomas Tuggle +3 more
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