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Symptomatic cardiomyopathy as a presentation in Whipple ' s disease
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The face of Whipple disease is changing rapidly. The disease was originally described in 1907 by the pathologist George Hoyt Whipple [1], but it was not until 1961 that electron microscopic studies showed it definitively to be caused by bacteria [2, 3]. The causative organism could not be cultivated, and the cell wall ultrastructure was considered ambiguous, so there was even uncertainty as to ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Autopsy Case Reports
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2236-1960
DOI: 10.4322/acr.2020.237