"Tropheryma"
| "Tropheryma" | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetia |
| Order: | Micrococcales |
| Family: | "Tropherymataceae" Nouioui et al. 2018 |
| Genus: | "Tropheryma" La Scola et al. 2001 |
| Species: | "T. whipplei" |
| Binomial name | |
| "Tropheryma whipplei" La Scola et al. 2001 | |
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"Tropheryma whipplei" is a bacterium that is the causative organism of Whipple's disease, and rarely, endocarditis.
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. Whipple himself probably observed the organisms as rod-shaped structures with silver stain in his original case.
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