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To the Editor: We were puzzled by the recent report by Relman et al. (July 30 issue)¹ confirming the identification of the Whipple's disease bacillus. A year ago in The Lancet we also reported that the Whipple bacillus was a gram-positive bacterium rich in guanine and cytosine (an actinomycete) not closely related to any other known organism². Our report showed that the biopsy specimen of small intestine from a patient with Whipple's disease contained massive numbers of a bacterial agent with the same 16S rRNA sequence as that confirmed and extended by Relman et al. We later reported using . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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