Yersinia enterocolitica: A cause of chronic polyarthritis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 831-837

  Van Der Heijden, Ineke M ^b   Res, Pieter C M ^b   Wilbrink, Bert ^b   Leow, Angela ^b   Breedveld, Ferdinand C ^b   Heesemann, Jurgen ^b   Tak, Paul P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CD4 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; NONHUMAN; POLYARTHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNOVIUM; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0030843337     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515535     Document Type: Article

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