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Interplay of microbe and major histocompatibility complex: a family study
G T Thomson1, C Rajanayagam, B Chiu
1Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
We describe a 24-year-old man who developed reactive arthritis (ReA) after a dysenteric illness caused by Salmonella hadar. Serologic tests suggested recent exposure of family members to Salmonella. All members of the family were HLA-B27 positive, but no other family member developed acute ReA, although 2 of them had clinical evidence of previously existing B27 associated arthritis.