Bacteria in Whipple's disease. Isolation of a Haemophilus strain from the jejunal propria.
Bacteria in Whipple's disease. Isolation of a Haemophilus strain from the jejunal propria.
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惠普尔病中的细菌。
DOI:
10.1111/apm.1966.66.1.135
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发表时间:
1966
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通讯作者:
Egil Gjone
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作者:
Asmund Kjierheim;Tore Midtvedt;Sverre Skrede;Egil Gjone
Whipple's disease, first described in 1907 (22), was for many years thought to be an intestinal lipodystrophy. The demonstration of PAS-Positive material in macrophages of the intestinal mucosa and mesenteric lymph nodes, carried out hy Blaclc-Sclwlf'cr in I 049 (1), was considered to lend support to the concept of\Vhipple's disease as a primary disorder of glycoprotein metabolism. The chemistry of the PAS-positive substance in question, however, has not heen clarified, neither has its origin been definitely established.. During the last years,. electron microscopic investigations of peroral llltestinal biopsies have shed new light on the aeliology of the small bowel lesions in this disease. Several studies have revealed the presence of rod-shaped structures strongly suggestive of small bacteria in the. ie. iunnl lamina propria of patients with\Vhipple's disease (:-1, 4, 6, 12, 14, 17, 21, 2i3), and serial biopsies have demonstrated that the haclerialikc bodies disappear during antibiotic treatment (12, 14). The PAS-Positive granules also tend to disappear, hut more slowly than do the bacteria (2, 9, 12, 14, 17). Most authors now seem to agree that microorganisms play a role, primary or secondary, in the development of Whipple's disease, and obviously there exists n need for the idenlifica-Lion of the" hacillnry bodies" regularly found in these patients. Hecently, Caroli cl a/.(3) isolated a bacterium identified ns Co run ebaclerillm anaerobic11111 from an inguinal lymph node in one patient, and claimed this microorganism to he the cnuse of\Vhipple's disease. In serial peroral biopsies from the jejunum,/\ole rl a/.(lil) demon-