Presence of bacterial DNA and bacterial peptidoglycans in joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other arthritides

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 593-598

  Van Der Heijden, Ineke M ^a   Wilbrink, Bert ^a,b   Tchetverikov, Ilja ^a   Schrijver, Ingrid A ^c   Schouls, Leo M ^b   Hazenberg, Maarten P ^c   Breedveld, Ferdinand C ^a   Tak, Paul P ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PEPTIDOGLYCAN;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JOINT INJURY; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS; SYNOVIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHLAMYDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STAINING AND LABELING; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0034040746     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200003)43:3<593::AID-ANR16>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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