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© 1988 All rights reserved

Factors Associated with the Development of Reactive Arthritis

A. Toivanen, R. Tertti, R. Lahesmaa-Rantala, T. H. Ståhlberg and K. Granfors

Correspondence to Dr Toivanen


  Abstract

The role of the causative microorganism in the generation of reactive arthritis is decisive, but host factors are also of major importance. Patients who develop reactive arthritis after Yersinia enteritis show several interesting featurer in the immunological defence against Yersinia when compared to thse who recover uneventfully When all these pecuharities are taken together, they strongly idicate that in the patients developing reactive arthritis the causative microorganism enters host tissues to persist within the body for prologed periods of time.

KEY WORDS: Yersinia, Arthritis, Reactive arthritis


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