Reactive arthritis

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-357

  Hannu, Timo ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial treatment; Clinical picture; Epidemiology; HLA B27; Incidence; Investigation; Outcome; Prognosis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HLA B27 ANTIGEN; INFLIXIMAB; KETOLIDE; PLACEBO; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INCIDENCE; MYCOPLASMA GENITALIUM; PLANTAR FASCIITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REACTIVE ARTHRITIS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; UREAPLASMA UREALYTICUM; URETHRITIS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTION; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 81455142421     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: 15321770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2011.01.018     Document Type: Review

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