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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.
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- Lipodystrophy, Intestinal
- Whipple's Disease
- Disease, Whipple
- Disease, Whipple's
- Intestinal Lipodystrophy
- Whipples Disease
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2004 (1996); use LIPODYSTROPHY, INTESTINAL 1963-1995
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Whipple Disease. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008061. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008061
- Whipple Disease. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipple%27s_disease
- Whipple Disease. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q653078