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Normal intestinal microbiota in the aetiopathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Sept 2003
Toivanen P
Abstract excerpt
A series of observations have led to the hypothesis that normal intestinal microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis may harbour, for genetic reasons, bacteria with cell walls capable of inducing arthritis. Differences occur between bacterial species, and even between strains of a single species, because some cell walls induce experimental chronic arthritis, whereas some others induce only a transient...
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