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20409366

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-4-22
pubmed:abstractText
Tropheryma whipplei, which causes Whipple disease, is found in human feces and may cause gastroenteritis. To show that T. whipplei causes gastroenteritis, PCRs for T. whipplei were conducted with feces from children 2-4 years of age. Western blotting was performed for samples from children with diarrhea who had positive or negative results for T. whipplei. T. whipplei was found in samples from 36 (15%) of 241 children with gastroenteritis and associated with other diarrheal pathogens in 13 (33%) of 36. No positive specimen was detected for controls of the same age (0/47; p = 0.008). Bacterial loads in case-patients were as high as those in patients with Whipple disease and significantly higher than those in adult asymptomatic carriers (p = 0.002). High incidence in patients and evidence of clonal circulation suggests that some cases of gastroenteritis are caused or exacerbated by T. whipplei, which may be co-transmitted with other intestinal pathogens.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1080-6059
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
776-82
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-10-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Tropheryma whipplei in children with gastroenteritis.
pubmed:affiliation
Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France. didier.raoult@gmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't