Introduction: There are very few reported cases of Whipple disease (WD), a rare chronic disease in Greece. In this report, we present a classic WD case in a Greek firefighter and the detection of an autochthonous genotype in this Greek autochthonous citizen.
Case Report: We describe a patient with chronic diarrhea and arthritis who was misdiagnosed with sclerosing mesenteritis three years previously and was unsuccessfully treated with corticosteroids.