title: Whipple's disease in neighbors.
abstract: Two patients new newly diagnosed Whipple's disease lived 2000 ft apart over a 20-year period in the southern Connecticut, Long Island Sound Community of Bridgeport. The scant literature concerning the epidemiology of this possibly infectious multisystem disease is reviewed.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003237:Connecticut; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008061:Whipple Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*
chemical_list: D010406:Penicillins