Double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study of three‐month treatment with lymecycline in reactive arthritis, with special reference to Chlamydia arthritis

Arthritis & Rheumatism

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 6-14

  Lauhio, Anneli ^a   Leirisalo‐Repo, Marjatta ^a,b   Lähdevirta, Juhani ^a   Saikku, Pekka ^a   Repo, Heikki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICLOFENAC; INDOMETACIN; LYMECYCLINE; NAPROXEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PLACEBO; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; STOMACH PAIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FECES; HUMAN; LYMECYCLINE; MALE; SULFASALAZINE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS; YERSINIA;

EID: 0026085334     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780340103     Document Type: Article

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