Chlamydia trachomatis -induced reactive arthritis in India: frequency and clinical presentation
| Autor: | Geetika Khanna, Sangita Rastogi, Sumit Batra, Vinod Sharma, Dewan S. Bhakuni, Praveen Kumar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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musculoskeletal diseases
030203 arthritis & rheumatology Immunoglobulin A biology Undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy business.industry Genitourinary system Enthesitis Dermatology Human leukocyte antigen medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Infectious Diseases Immunology biology.protein Medicine Reactive arthritis In patient 030212 general & internal medicine medicine.symptom skin and connective tissue diseases business Chlamydia trachomatis |
| Zdroj: | Sexually Transmitted Infections. 93:233-233 |
| ISSN: | 1472-3263 1368-4973 |
| Popis: | Chlamydia trachomatis ( C. trachomatis )-induced reactive arthritis (ReA)/undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy (uSpA) are unrecognised/underestimated entities, and clinicians often fail to recognise them. In India, our group was the first to report intra-articular C. trachomatis infection in patients with ReA/uSpA having genitourinary symptoms.1 Males were predominant (78%) and majority of patients presented with an oligoarthritic profile (80%), enthesitis (11%) and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B27 (40%); however, none reported ocular infection. Despite this observation, it is also very likely that C. trachomatis -induced ReA/uSpA is underdiagnosed in women. Intra-articular C. trachomatis … |
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