Chlamydia pneumoniae--a new causative agent of reactive arthritis and undifferentiated oligoarthritis.
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Chlamydia pneumoniae--a new causative agent of reactive arthritis and undifferentiated oligoarthritis.
OBJECTIVE To examine whether reactive arthritis (ReA) known to occur after a urogenital infection with Chlamydia trachomatis can also follow an infection with Chlamydia pneumoniae, a recently described species of Chlamydiae that is a common cause of respiratory tract infections. METHODS Specific antibodies (microimmunofluorescence test) and lymphocyte proliferation to C trachomatis and C pneu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.53.2.100