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| Predicate | Object |
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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
2
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1995-4-26
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| pubmed:abstractText |
After having been considered as an essentially digestive disease, Whipple's disease has appeared more and more to be a multivisceral disease with two main characteristics: on one hand Whipple's disease yields a diffuse infiltration of tissues by abnormal macrophages without any other inflammatory reaction; on the other hand, aspects of microbial invasion by intra or extracellular unique rod-shaped Gram+bacteria are found. This unusual pathological complex has alternatively been considered as suggestive of an immunological defect or as a very unusual type of bacterial infection. Though recent studies support the hypothesis of a primary microbial infection due to a hitherto undescribed bacterium (Tropheryma whippelii) or more or less related bacteria belonging to the actinomycetes family, they do not totally exclude a primary or acquired impairment of antigen processing by macrophages. Speculations about this fascinating pathophysiological model and about its optimal therapeutic modalities are not likely to reach a conclusion in the near future.
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| pubmed:language |
fre
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Jan
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| pubmed:issn |
0755-4982
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:day |
14
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| pubmed:volume |
24
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
119-20, 123-8
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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| pubmed:meshHeading | |
| pubmed:year |
1995
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
[Whipple disease: a single or multiple origin?].
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| pubmed:affiliation |
CHU Bichat-Claude Bernard, Université Paris VII.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
English Abstract,
Review
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