%0 Journal Article
%9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES
%A Fenollar, F.
%A Trape, Jean-François
%A Bassene, H.
%A Sokhna, Cheikh
%A Raoult, Didier
%T Tropheryma whipplei in Fecal Samples from Children, Senegal
%D 2009
%L fdi:010046140
%G ENG
%J Emerging Infectious Diseases
%@ 1080-6040
%M ISI:000266539100011
%N 6
%P 922-924
%R 10.3201/eid1506.090182
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010046140
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2009/06/010046140.pdf
%V 15
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X We tested fecal samples from 150 healthy children 2-10 years of age who lived in rural Senegal and found the prevalence of Tropheryma whipplei was 44%. Unique genotypes were associated with this bacterium. Our findings suggest that T whipplei is emerging as a highly prevalent pathogen in sub-Saharan Africa.
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