[Is rheumatoid arthritis connected with a digestive tract parasitosis? (author's transl)].
The comparison of blood eosinophil counts and stool parasites in two groups of patients--twenty one suffering from rheumatoid arthritis and twenty one from other various diseases--did not show any significant difference in favour of a parasitological etiology in rheumatoid arthritis, an hypothesis which had to be considered because of the efficacy of levamisole in the treatment of this disease.
D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000469:parasitology; D004804:Eosinophils; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D007978:Levamisole / Q000627:therapeutic use
D007978:Levamisole
La polyarthrite rhumatoïde est-elle liée à une parasitose intestinale?