Observations on the causes of rheumatoid arthritis.
Inflammatory, symmetrical peripheral polyarthritis is observed in a small proportion of patients following a variety of parasitic, viral and microbial infections. The development of such a post-infective arthritis disorder may depend on a sequence of events, which need not be confined to one extrinsic pathogenic organism.
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D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000150:complications*; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000209:etiology*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections; D014777:Virus Diseases / Q000150:complications