Is polymyalgia rheumatica caused by infectious agents? [6]

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 200-201

  Nuti, Ranuccio ^a   Giordano, Nicola ^a   Martini, Giuseppe ^a   Amendola, Alessandra ^a   Geraci, Simone ^a   Goutzamani, Joanna ^a   Cipolli, Fiorenza ^a   Natili, Nicola ^b   Mugnaini, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADENOVIRUS; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEPATITIS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; LETTER; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PARVOVIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SEASON; SEROPREVALENCE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 11844255715     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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