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Detection of bacteria and analyses of C hlamydia trachomatis viability in patients with postvenereal reactive arthritis
Author(s) -
Strelić N.,
Bojović J.,
Pavlica L.,
CikotaAleksić B.,
Miličić B.,
Magić Z.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.12580
Subject(s) - medicine , reactive arthritis , doxycycline , ciprofloxacin , arthritis , antibiotics , synovectomy , bacteria , tetracycline , genitourinary system , immunology , gastroenterology , microbiology and biotechnology , rheumatoid arthritis , genetics , biology
Postvenereal reactive arthritis is an inflammatory form of arthritis that commonly develops after urogenital infection, predominantly in human leucocyte antigen‐ B 27‐positive men in the third decade of life. In our hospital, patients underwent synovectomy before a 4‐month course of antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, tetracycline and roxithromicin). The clinical remission was achieved in approximately 70% patients. At molecular level, the remission was associated with the negative polymerase chain reaction findings of bacteria.