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  • Title: Reactive arthritis or chronic infectious arthritis?
    Author: Sibilia J, Limbach FX.
    Journal: Ann Rheum Dis; 2002 Jul; 61(7):580-7. PubMed ID: 12079895.
    Abstract:
    Microbes reach the synovial cavity either directly during bacteraemia or by transport within lymphoid cells or monocytes. This may stimulate the immune system excessively, triggering arthritis. Some forms of ReA correspond to slow infectious arthritis due to the persistence of microbes and some to an infection triggered arthritis linked to an extra-articular site of infection.
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