Whipple's disease in neighbors

J Clin Gastroenterol. 1982 Jun;4(3):223-6. doi: 10.1097/00004836-198206000-00006.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Connecticut
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Penicillins / therapeutic use
  • Whipple Disease / diagnosis
  • Whipple Disease / drug therapy
  • Whipple Disease / epidemiology*

Substances

  • Penicillins