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Preferred term

Whipple Disease  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A chronic systemic infection by a gram-positive bacterium, Tropheryma whippelii, mainly affecting the SMALL INTESTINE but also the JOINTS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. The disease is characterized by fat deposits in the INTESTINAL MUCOSA and LYMPH NODES, malabsorption, DIARRHEA with fatty stools, MALNUTRITION, and ARTHRITIS.

Synonym(s)

  • Lipodystrophy, Intestinal
  • Whipple's Disease

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-C99HR2PK-J

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