Case Studies
David Chant was a farmer who was diagnosed in Kingston General Hospital in Ontario, Canada. His case of Whipple’s disease was the only known case in Kingston since 1974. David got the bacteria through farming to his crops and being a partial dairy farmer makes him a prime candidate for the bacteria, Tropheryma whipplei. David was sent to the hospital for 12 days, 4 days were seeing which antibiotic worked best against the biopsied culture they took from David. He has severe arthritis pain and loses all of his teeth at one point. He loses 55 pounds and hallucinates a lot, which doctors aren’t sure why. He had 8 out of the 10 presently known symptoms for Whipple disease. The only the reason they even had an idea that it could be this devastating rare disease was thanks to David’s brother Paul. Paul had seen a documentary on the discovery channel about this rare disease and he just had a hunch that his brother might be infected. The doctor (Dr. Matthews) was perplexed when he had David as a patient because Whipple’s disease was something not many Physicians knew about. After successful treatment, David is happy and healthy and alive with his family. David still receives antibiotics and probably always will for the rest of his life.
Case Study
In this article there was an explanation of a 78 year old man whose body became resistant to the treatment he was receiving. He was diagnosed in 2003 with Whipple Disease from the concerning symptoms of diarrhea, arthralgia, weight loss.
The patient was started on a regimen of Trimethoprim - Sulfmethoxozole, initially showing positive developing signs within the period of two weeks . However, just as things seemed look up for the patient with disappearing symptoms, they seemed to have reemerged.
Disregarding continued treatment of Trimethoprim - Sulfmethoxozole, after 19 months treatments `still were not working.
So now we look at why the current treatment wasn't working.
Lets consider gene mutations and missing DNA.
The patient was started on a regimen of Trimethoprim - Sulfmethoxozole, initially showing positive developing signs within the period of two weeks . However, just as things seemed look up for the patient with disappearing symptoms, they seemed to have reemerged.
Disregarding continued treatment of Trimethoprim - Sulfmethoxozole, after 19 months treatments `still were not working.
So now we look at why the current treatment wasn't working.
Lets consider gene mutations and missing DNA.