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Whipple's Disease Learning Center
Causes could include:
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Tropheryma whipplei
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Whipple's disease is caused by infection from bacteria called Tropheryma whippelii. The disorder mainly affects middle-aged white men.
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The bacterium that causes Whipple's disease was only successfully cultured in 1997. Tropheryma whipplei belongs to the high G+C phylum of gram-positive bacteria, and its genome was sequenced in 2003. Whipple's disease has traditionally been regard...
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