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Case Reports
. 1978 Apr;37(2):180-2.
doi: 10.1136/ard.37.2.180.

Isolation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from the synovial fluid of a hypogrammaglobulinaemic patient in a survey of patients with inflammatory polyarthritis

D Taylor-Robinson, J M Gumpel, A Hill, A J Swannell
Case Reports

Isolation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from the synovial fluid of a hypogrammaglobulinaemic patient in a survey of patients with inflammatory polyarthritis

D Taylor-Robinson et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 1978 Apr.

Abstract

Mycoplasmas were not isolated from synovial fluid or membrane specimens taken from 41 patients suffering from inflammatory polyarthritis. However, Mycoplasma pneumoniae was isolated in two laboratories and on two occasions from the knee joint of a hypogammaglobulinaemic patient with a chronic polyarthritis.

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