Torres GIP

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Whipple’s disease is a rare chronic infectious disease, usually more common in middle-aged white men caused by Tropheryma Whipplei. Early diagnosis of this disease has been due to the technological advance of medicine. It is treated with antibiotics.

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