How is Whipple disease best treated

How is Whipple disease best treated? 

  • Initial treatment is ceftriaxone (or meropenem) for 2 weeks to ensure therapy of the CNS. Oral trimethoprim (TMP)–sulfamethoxazole (SMX) is subsequently used for more than 1 year.
  • Tetracycline can be used in sulfa-allergic patients.
  • Relapses can occur particularly in patients with CNS involvement (30%).
  • These patients should be treated indefinitely with oral TMP/SMX.
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