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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2007, p. 2033-2035, Vol. 73, No. 6
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02335-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Tropheryma whipplei in the Environment: Survey of Sewage Plant Influxes and Sewage Plant Workers{triangledown}

Maximilian Schöniger-Hekele,* Dagmar Petermann, Beate Weber, and Christian Müller*

Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin IV, Klinische Abteilung Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Medizinische Universität Wien, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Received 3 October 2006/ Accepted 21 January 2007

We studied the prevalence of Tropheryma whipplei in influxes to 46 sewage treatment plants and in stool, mouthwash fluids, and dental plaques of 64 healthy workers in those facilities and 146 disease control patients. T. whipplei was found in sewage water, in stool of healthy individuals, and significantly more often in stool of workers exposed to sewage water.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin IV, Klinische Abteilung Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. Phone for Maximilian Schöniger-Hekele: 43 (1) 40400-4741. Fax: 43 (1) 40400-4735. E-mail: maximilian.schoeniger-hekele{at}meduniwien.ac.at. Phone for Christian Müller: 43 (1) 40400-4792. Fax: 43 (1) 40400-4794. E-mail: christian.j.mueller{at}meduniwien.ac.at.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 2 February 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, March 2007, p. 2033-2035, Vol. 73, No. 6
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02335-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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