Clinical and experimental evidence for persistentYersinia infection in reactive arthritis

Abstract excerpt

The findings of bacterial antigens in the joint and persistent triggering infection elsewhere in the body are thought to be important in the pathogenesis of reactive arthritis (ReA). We describe a patient with clinical and laboratory features consistent with this. The initial presentation with erythema nodosum and periarthritis due to infection with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis IV was followed 13 months later by...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
• Share to Vector-borne infectious diseases
• Share to Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research