Tropheryma whipplei: a common bacterium in rural Senegal.

• Main Authors: Alpha Kabinet Keita (Author), Hubert Bassene (Author), Adama Tall (Author), Cheikh Sokhna (Author), Pavel Ratmanov (Author), Jean-François Trape (Author), Didier Raoult (Author), Florence Fenollar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: 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...