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© 1983 All rights reserved

Historical Perspectives in the Aetiology of Ankylosing Spondylitis

E. G. L. Bywaters


  Abstract

A brief historical review of the aetiology of ankylosing spondylitis is presented.A recurrent theme has been diathesis and infection. Diathesis has now been pinpointed to the 6th chromosome in the form of HLA-B27. but. as yet, we know little of any infective aetiology for ankylosing spondylitis itself.


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