Whipple's disease takes the name of Dr George Whipple, an American physician, scientist and educator who shared the Nobel prize in Physiology in Medicine in 1934.

Whipple’s disease is a bacterial disease that prevents the proper absorption of fats and other nutrients. Get the facts on risk factors, outlook, and more.

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Whipple's disease can be diagnosed by a histologic examination of endoscopically biopsied intestinal mucosa with a sensitivity of 75% (a percentage that can be slightly improved with the use of ...

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Decades later, in 1990, Ken Wilson of Duke and colleagues identified the causal organism, Tropheryma whipplei, and now the disease is known as Whipple's disease.