Feature | Patients with Whipple's disease | Patients with Whipple's disease and neurological manifestations | Patients with certain T. whipplei encephalitis | Patients with possible T. whipplei encephalitis | Patients with certain or possible T. whipplei encephalitis |
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No./total no. (%) | |||||
Male sex | 770/886 (87) | 57/74 (77) | 8/13 (61.5) | 4/7 (57) | 12/20 (60) |
Age | NA | 50 ± 13 | 50 ± 13 | 52 ± 12 | 51 ± 12 |
Arthralgia or arthritis | 244/335 (73) | 49/74 (66) | 1/11 (9) | 3/7 (43) | 4/18 (22) |
Chronic diarrhoea | 272/335 (81) | 30/74 (40.5) | 0/12 | 0/6 | 0/18 |
Weight loss | 223/240 (93) | 35/57 (47) | 1/11 (9) | 0/6 | 1/17 (6) |