AIM To analyse the clinical symptoms, aetiology and biomechanical aspects related to Sinding-Larsen-Johansson (SLJ) disease. MATERIAL AND METHOD A case control study was conducted, analysing the following variables: age, gender, clinical follow up, side of body with the symptoms, sporting activity, radiological stage, presence of patella alta, presence of short hamstring tendons, and increase...

Recensión de José Martín y Pérez Nanclares. BURGORGUE-LARSEN, L., Trois Cours – Les 3 regionales des droits l’homme in context. La justice qui n’allait pas soi, París, Pedone, 2020, 592 pp.

Turkey Meat as Source of CC9/ CC398 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Humans? TO THE EDITOR—Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aure-us (MRSA) of clonal complex (CC) 398 were first reported to cause severe infections in humans in 2005 [1]. Direct animal exposure is considered the most effective means of MRSA CC398 transmission from livestock to humans. However...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate HLA-DM alleles as markers for disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Two distinct cohorts of patients with RA were oligotyped for HLA-DB1 and HLA-DM genes using PCR amplified genomic DNA with sequence specific oligonucleotide probes. Cohort 1 comprised 199 unselected patients with RA (mean (SD) age 45.5 (13.5) years; disease duration 11.9(8.8) years), who...