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Julie Cremniter1, Thomas Bauer, Alain Lortat-Jacob, Dominique Vodovar, Jean-Marie Le Parc, Jean-François Emile, Brigitte Franc, Pierre Sebbag, Jean-Louis Gaillard, Beate Heym.
Abstract
We report a case of prosthetic hip infection due to Tropheryma whipplei in a 74-year-old man not previously known to have Whipple's disease. Diagnosis was based on systematic 16S rRNA gene amplification and sequencing of samples obtained during revision hip arthroplasty.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18287323 PMCID: PMC2292971 DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02451-07
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN: 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948