Chromosomal DNA from a variety of bacterial species is present in synovial tissue from patients with various forms of arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1689-1697

  Gérard, Hervé C ^a   Wang, Zhao ^a   Wang, Geng Feng ^b   El Gabalawy, Hani ^c   Goldbach Mansky, Rafaela ^c   Li, Yong ^b   Majeed, Warqaa ^b   Zhang, Haidi ^b   Ngai, Ngayin ^b   Hudson, Alan P ^a   Schumacher, H Ralph ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; CHLAMYDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORAXELLA; MYCOPLASMA; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SALMONELLA;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; ARTHRITIS, REACTIVE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOPSY; CHILD; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLA; NEISSERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; SALMONELLA; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0034931802     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200107)44:7<1689::AID-ART293>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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