title: Whipple's disease.
abstract: This article reviews the microbiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostic testing, and treatment of Whipple's disease, an illness caused by Tropheryma whipplei and characterized by multivariate clinical manifestations including an inflammatory arthropathy. Diagnosis is confirmed by tissue sampling with periodic acid-Schiff staining and/or polymerase chain reaction. Clinical manifestations most frequently manifest in the gastrointestinal tract, musculoskeletal system, neurologic system, heart, and eyes, but can affect any site. Successful therapy with appropriate antibiotics is potentially curable, but recurrences may occur.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. SchwartzmanS@HSS.EDU
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schwartzman
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schwartzman
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009140:Musculoskeletal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D010503:Periodic Acid-Schiff Reaction; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D035583:Rare Diseases; D054851:Tropheryma / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008061:Whipple Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000503:physiopathology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents