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. 1988:27 Suppl 2:173-5.
doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/xxvii.suppl_2.173.

Observations on the causes of rheumatoid arthritis

S Atkin, D Walker, M Mander, A Malcolm, W C Dick

Observations on the causes of rheumatoid arthritis

S Atkin et al. Br J Rheumatol. 1988.

Abstract

Inflammatory, symmetrical peripheral polyarthritis is observed in a small proportion of patients following a variety of parasitic, viral and microbial infections. The development of such a post-infective arthritis disorder may depend on a sequence of events, which need not be confined to one extrinsic pathogenic organism.

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