Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis group organisms in human and mouse joint tissue by reverse transcriptase PCR: Prevalence in diseased synovial tissue suggests lack of specific association with rheumatoid arthritis

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1821-1831

  Kempsell, K E ^a   Cox, C J ^a   McColm, A A ^a   Bagshaw, J A ^a   Reece, R ^a   Veale, D J ^a   Emery, P ^a   Isaacs, J D ^a   Gaston, J S H ^a   Crowe, J S ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNOVIAL FLUID LEVEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; JOINTS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0035115276     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.69.3.1821-1831.2001     Document Type: Article

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