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    Metabolic theories of Whipple disease
    with Oscar Morice, Mathew Elameer, Mina Arsanious, Helen Stephens, Eleanor Soutter, and Brendan Clarke
    Whipple disease is a rare, infectious, disease first described from a single case by Whipple in 1907. As well as characterising the clinical and pathological features of the condition, Whipple made two suggestions regarding its aetiology. These were either than the disease was caused by an infectious agent, or that it was of metabolic origin. As the disease is now thought to be caused by infection with the bacterium Tropheryma whipplei, historical reviews of the history of the disease typically …Read more