TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII ENDOCARDITIS CONFIRMED BY POLYMERASE CHAIN-REACTION

Authors
WENDLER D MENDOZA E SCHLEIFFER T ZANDER M MAIER M
Citation
D. Wendler et al., TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII ENDOCARDITIS CONFIRMED BY POLYMERASE CHAIN-REACTION, European heart journal, 16(3), 1995, pp. 424-425
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
European heart journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
0195668X
Volume
16
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
424 - 425
Database
ISI
SICI code
0195-668X(1995)16:3<424:TWECBP>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
This report concerns a patient with cardiac manifestation of Whipple's disease. For the first time, the gene that encodes the 16s rRNA of Tr opheryma whippelii was identified in a native aortic valve by means of a polymerase chain reaction technique. DNA amplification gives eviden ce of Tropheryma whippelii as a causative organism in infective endoca rditis.