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Infection as a cause of reactive arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and rheumatic fever
1Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35233.
Current Opinion in Rheumatology
|August 1, 1992
Abstract:
Recent advances in understanding the role of infectious agents in the etiology of reactive arthritis (Reiter's syndrome), ankylosing spondylitis, and rheumatic fever are reviewed. The reader is referred to other reviews in this section for discussions of septic, spirochetal, mycobacterial, and fungal arthritis, and human immunodeficiency virus-related connective tissue diseases.