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The prevalence of Mycoplasma fermentans in patients with inflammatory arthritides
1 Dec 2001
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OBJECTIVES: To search for evidence that Mycoplasma fermentans is involved in the pathogenesis of some forms of human arthritis by testing for the presence of mycoplasmal DNA in joint material. METHODS: M. fermentans DNA was detected by the identification of a 104-base pair amplification product of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). RESULTS: M. fermentans DNA was detected in synovial fluid samples from six (17%)...
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