Protisvalor Mediterranee

Florence Fenollar

Didier Raoult

Bernard La Scola

Marie-Laure Birg

The invention relates to a method for in vitro seriological diagnosis of Whipple's disease, whereby the bacteria responsible for the disease are isolated and established in a culture and brought into contact with the serum or biological fluid of an infected patient. The invention also relates to useful oligonucleotides with a probe and a primer for amplifying, sequencing and detecting the gene rpoB of the bacteria,

Diagnosis of Whipple's disease

The invention relates to a method for in vitro seriological diagnosis of Whipple's disease, whereby the bacteria responsible for the disease are isolated and established in a culture and brought into contact with the serum or biological fluid of an infected patient. The invention also relates to useful oligonucelotides with a probe and a primer for amplifying, sequencing and detecting the gene rpoB of the bacteria,

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Marseilles, France

Florence Fenollar