Bacterial components in the synovial tissue of patients with advanced rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis: Analysis with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and pan-bacterial polymerase chain reaction

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 328-334

  Chen, Tong ^a   Rimpiläinen, Marja ^a   Luukkainen, Reijo ^b   Möttönen, Timö ^c   Yli Jama, Tuomas ^d   Jalava, Jari ^a   Vainio, Olli ^a   Toivanen, Paavo ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Satalinnan Sairaala   (Finland)

^c TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d TURKU CITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Pan bacterial PCR; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; MURAMIC ACID; PRIMER RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EVALUATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT SURGERY; LABORATORY TEST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNOVIUM; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0038651926     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.11119     Document Type: Article

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