"Tropheryma"
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"Tropheryma whipplei" is a bacterium that is the causative organism of Whipple's disease,[2] and rarely, endocarditis.
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"Tropheryma" | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
Class: | Actinomycetia |
Order: | Micrococcales |
Family: | "Tropherymataceae" Nouioui et al. 2018[1] |
Genus: | "Tropheryma" La Scola et al. 2001[2] |
Species: | "T. whipplei" |
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"Tropheryma whipplei" La Scola et al. 2001[2] | |
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While "T. whipplei" is categorized with the Gram-positive Actinomycetota, the organism is commonly found to be Gram-positive or Gram-indeterminate when stained in the laboratory.[2] Whipple himself probably observed the organisms as rod-shaped structures with silver stain in his original case.[4]