[Tropical sprue: diagnostic difficulties. Apropos of 2 cases in Guadeloupe].
The authors report two cases of tropical sprue occurring in Guadeloupe, in the French Lesser Antilles, a region in which this disease had previously been reported only once. One of the patients was treated with quinolone (ofloxacin).
Cnudde
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Service de Médecine B, Centre hospitalier général, BASSE TERRE/Saint-Claude, Guadeloupe.
Boulard
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Teron-Aboud
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B
Chevallier
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J
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004318:Doxycycline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015242:Ofloxacin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013182:Sprue, Tropical / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014900:West Indies
D015242:Ofloxacin; D004318:Doxycycline
Sprue tropicale: difficultés diagnostiques. A propos de deux cas en Guadeloupe.