title: Antibiotic treatment of venereal disease and Reiter's syndrome in a Greenland population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the effects of antibiotic treatment of urethritis or cervicitis on the incidence of recurrences of articular symptoms in Reiter's syndrome patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective evaluation of the medical charts of 109 patients living in Greenland.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-seven percent of the episodes of genitourinary tract inflammation that were not treated or were treated with penicillin were followed by arthritis, compared with 10% of those treated with tetracycline or erythromycin.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Antibiotics active against Chlamydia trachomatis reduced the risk of postvenereal arthritis in the population studied.
authors.affiliation: Clinique de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Lariboisière, France.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bardin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Enel
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cornelis
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Salski
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jorgensen
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Lathrop
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001168:Arthritis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016918:Arthritis, Reactive / Q000188:drug therapy*; D004917:Erythromycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006116:Greenland / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D004930:Inuit; D008297:Male; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012008:Recurrence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013752:Tetracycline / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014526:Urethritis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D002575:Uterine Cervicitis / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D010406:Penicillins; D004917:Erythromycin; D013752:Tetracycline