Periodontopathic bacteria and rheumatoid arthritis: Is there a link?

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 310-311

  Ogrendik, Mesut ^a  

^a Nazilli State Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; ORNIDAZOLE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; EPITOPE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; LETTER; PATHOGENESIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TANNERELLA FORSYTHENSIS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; COMORBIDITY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; COMORBIDITY; EPITOPES; HUMANS; PERIODONTITIS;

EID: 58949097037     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e318188dba6     Document Type: Letter

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