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Research on chlamydia published by scientists at Gulhane Military Medical Academy

Published in Pain and Central Nervous System Week, December 25th, 2006

Investigators publish new data in the report "Clinical presentations of chlamydial and non-chlamydial reactive arthritis." According to a study from Turkey, "The aim of this study was to investigate the triggering micro-organisms and the clinical as well as laboratory differences between Chlamydial and non-chlamydial reactive arthritis (ReA) in a prospective study on 98 patients with acute/subacute arthritis. An inciting organism was found in 42 patients."

"Eighteen of these were chlamydial. Fifty-seven percent of all ReA patients were carriers for HLA-B27, which increased to 67% in the chlamydial group. Chlamydial ReA patients had more urethritis (p <0.05) with a...

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