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Consistent Prevalence of Spondyloarthropathy Over 2300 Years: Ancient Egyptians and the Synchronic Baboon Catacomb. Evol Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11692-021-09549-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Rothschild BM, Wayne Lambert H. Distinguishing between congenital phenomena and traumatic experiences: Osteochondrosis versus osteochondritis. J Orthop 2021; 23:185-190. [PMID: 33551611 DOI: 10.1016/j.jor.2021.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The current study is to distinguish between osteochondrosis and osteochondritis, utilizing surface microscopy of individuals with documented pathology. Osteochondrosis is associated with smooth borders and gradient from edge to defect base, while osteochondritis and subchondral impaction fractures are associated with subsidence of the affected area of articular surface with irregular edges. The base of osteochondrosis is penetrated by multiple channels, smoothly perforate its surface, indistinguishable from unfused epiphyses, confirming their vascular nature. This study provides a technique for distinguishing osteochondrosis and osteochondritis and further documents of the value of epi-illumination microscopy in expanding our understanding of bone and joint disease.
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- Bruce M Rothschild
- IU Health, 2401 University Ave, Muncie, IN, 47303, USA
- Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Laboratory Medicine (PALM), Division of Anatomy, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, WV, 26506, USA
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Donat R, Mokrane FZ, Rousseau H, Dedouit F, Telmon N, Crubézy É. The antiquity of the spondyloarthritides: Presentation of one of the oldest Neolithic cases in Western Europe. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PALEOPATHOLOGY 2019; 24:229-235. [PMID: 30597411 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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In humans, little is yet known about the origins of the inflammatory rheumatisms of the spondyloarthritides group, especially regarding the period of their emergence. However, a better knowledge of their history would help to clarify their aetiology. We report a paleopathological case of European origin, dated from the late Neolithic (3621-3023 cal BC), consisting of an isolated vertebral block combining erosion, ossification and severe anterior and posterior ankylosis. The lesional presentation is very suggestive of a severe form of axial spondyloarthritis. This specimen and some other rare cases from the same period found in Western Europe suggest that these diseases appeared, in this geographical region, in evolving groups of humans as part of the demographic and epidemiological transition that constituted the Neolithic period. The emergence of infectious agents and the profound dietary changes that occurred during this period of human history may have favoured the appearance of the spondyloarthritides.
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- Richard Donat
- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Image Synthesis (AMIS), University of Toulouse, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR 5288, Faculty of Medicine Purpan, 37, Allées Jules Guesde, 31000, Toulouse, France.
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Image Synthesis (AMIS), University of Toulouse, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR 5288, Faculty of Medicine Purpan, 37, Allées Jules Guesde, 31000, Toulouse, France; Department of Radiology, CHU Toulouse-Rangueil, 1, avenue du Pr Jean Poulhès TSA 50032, 31059, Toulouse Cedex 9, France; Department of Radiology, New York-Presbyterian, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Department of Radiology, CHU Toulouse-Rangueil, 1, avenue du Pr Jean Poulhès TSA 50032, 31059, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Image Synthesis (AMIS), University of Toulouse, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR 5288, Faculty of Medicine Purpan, 37, Allées Jules Guesde, 31000, Toulouse, France; University Center of Legal Medicine, Lausanne-Geneva, Forensic Imaging and Anthropology Unit, Chemin de la Vulliette 4, CH-1000, Lausanne 25, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Image Synthesis (AMIS), University of Toulouse, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR 5288, Faculty of Medicine Purpan, 37, Allées Jules Guesde, 31000, Toulouse, France; Department of Forensic Medicine, CHU Toulouse-Rangueil, 1, avenue du Pr Jean Poulhès TSA 50032, 31059, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Image Synthesis (AMIS), University of Toulouse, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), UMR 5288, Faculty of Medicine Purpan, 37, Allées Jules Guesde, 31000, Toulouse, France
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Lowenstine LJ, McManamon R, Terio KA. Comparative Pathology of Aging Great Apes: Bonobos, Chimpanzees, Gorillas, and Orangutans. Vet Pathol 2015; 53:250-76. [PMID: 26721908 DOI: 10.1177/0300985815612154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) are our closest relatives. Despite the many similarities, there are significant differences in aging among apes, including the human ape. Common to all are dental attrition, periodontitis, tooth loss, osteopenia, and arthritis, although gout is uniquely human and spondyloarthropathy is more prevalent in apes than humans. Humans are more prone to frailty, sarcopenia, osteoporosis, longevity past reproductive senescence, loss of brain volume, and Alzheimer dementia. Cerebral vascular disease occurs in both humans and apes. Cardiovascular disease mortality increases in aging humans and apes, but coronary atherosclerosis is the most significant type in humans. In captive apes, idiopathic myocardial fibrosis and cardiomyopathy predominate, with arteriosclerosis of intramural coronary arteries. Similar cardiac lesions are occasionally seen in wild apes. Vascular changes in heart and kidneys and aortic dissections in gorillas and bonobos suggest that hypertension may be involved in pathogenesis. Chronic kidney disease is common in elderly humans and some aging apes and is linked with cardiovascular disease in orangutans. Neoplasms common to aging humans and apes include uterine leiomyomas in chimpanzees, but other tumors of elderly humans, such as breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancers, are uncommon in apes. Among the apes, chimpanzees have been best studied in laboratory settings, and more comparative research is needed into the pathology of geriatric zoo-housed and wild apes. Increasing longevity of humans and apes makes understanding aging processes and diseases imperative for optimizing quality of life in all the ape species.
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- L J Lowenstine
- Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project-Gorilla Doctors, Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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- Zoo and Exotic Animal Pathology Service, Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Department of Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Zoological Pathology Program, University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA
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Hammond AS. In vivo baseline measurements of hip joint range of motion in suspensory and nonsuspensory anthropoids. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2014; 153:417-34. [PMID: 24288178 PMCID: PMC4023689 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2013] [Revised: 11/11/2013] [Accepted: 11/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Hominoids and atelines are known to use suspensory behaviors and are assumed to possess greater hip joint mobility than nonsuspensory monkeys, particularly for range of abduction. This assumption has greatly influenced how extant and fossil primate hip joint morphology has been interpreted, despite the fact that there are no data available on hip mobility in hominoids or Ateles. This study uses in vivo measurements to test the hypothesis that suspensory anthropoids have significantly greater ranges of hip joint mobility than nonsuspensory anthropoids. Passive hip joint mobility was measured on a large sample of anesthetized captive anthropoids (nonhuman hominids = 43, hylobatids = 6, cercopithecids = 43, Ateles = 6, and Cebus = 6). Angular and linear data were collected using goniometers and tape measures. Range of motion (ROM) data were analyzed for significant differences by locomotor group using ANOVA and phylogenetic regression. The data demonstrate that suspensory anthropoids are capable of significantly greater hip abduction and external rotation. Degree of flexion and internal rotation were not larger in the suspensory primates, indicating that suspension is not associated with a global increase in hip mobility. Future work should consider the role of external rotation in abduction ability, how the physical position of the distal limb segments are influenced by differences in ROM proximally, as well as focus on bony and soft tissue differences that enable or restrict abduction and external rotation at the anthropoid hip joint.
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- Ashley S. Hammond
- Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine, M263 Medical Sciences Building, Columbia, Missouri 65212
- Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794
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Rothschild B. What qualifies as rheumatoid arthritis? World J Rheumatol 2013; 3:3-5. [DOI: 10.5499/wjr.v3.i1.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2012] [Revised: 01/11/2013] [Accepted: 01/24/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Expansion of diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis and deletion of exceptions increases sensitivity, but at the expense of specificity. Two decades later, modification of criteria included the caveat: “absence of an alternative diagnosis that better explains the synovitis.” That puts great faith in the diagnostic skills of the evaluating individual and their perspectives of disease. The major confounding factor appears to be spondyloarthropathy, which shares some characteristics with rheumatoid arthritis. Recognition of the latter on the basis of marginally distributed and symmetrical polyarticular erosions, in absence of axial (odontoid disease excepted) involvement requires modification to avoid failure to recognize a different disease, spondyloarthropathy. Skeletal distribution, pure expression of disease in natural animal models and biomechanical studies clearly rule out peripheral joint fusion (at least in the absence of corticosteroid therapy) as a manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis. Further, such studies identity predominant wrist and ankle involvement as characteristic of a different disease, spondyloarthropathy. It is important to separate the two diagnostic groups for epidemiologic study and for clinical diagnosis. They certainly differ in their pathophysiology.
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Taurog JD. Animal models of spondyloarthritis. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 2009; 649:245-54. [PMID: 19731634 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0298-6_18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Animal models are available for the study of several different aspects of spondyloarthritis. The models include naturally occurring spontaneous disorders in primates and rodents, spontaneous disorders in transgenic or gene-deleted rodents and induced disorders in rodents. Areas of investigation to which these models contribute include the role HLA-B27, processes of spinal and peripheral joint inflammation and calcification, immune responses to candidate antigens and the role of TNF.
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- Joel D Taurog
- Rheumatic Diseases Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-8884, USA.
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Rothschild BM, Panza RK. Epidemiologic assessment of trauma-independent skeletal pathology in non-passerine birds from museum collections. Avian Pathol 2005; 34:212-9. [PMID: 16191704 DOI: 10.1080/03079450500096455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Systematic survey of mammalian skeletons has revealed patterns of disease reproducible over geologic time. Systematic examination of non-passerine bird skeletons also reveals patterns of disease and identifies those disorders amenable to epidemiologic assessment. Neoplasia, infection, osteochondromatosis and gout are extremely rare, precluding phylogenetic comparisons--at least those based on macroscopic examination of skeletons. Osteoarthritis, paradoxically, is identified at sufficient population frequency for meaningful investigation.
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- Bruce M Rothschild
- Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Youngstown, OH 44512, USA.
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Dar G, Peleg S, Masharawi Y, Steinberg N, Rothschild BM, Peled N, Hershkovitz I. Sacroiliac joint bridging: demographical and anatomical aspects. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2005; 30:E429-32. [PMID: 16094261 DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000172232.32082.e0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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STUDY DESIGN A descriptive study of the association between sacroiliac joint bridging (SIB) and age, gender, laterality, and ethnic origin in a normal skeletal population. The effectiveness of radiographs in identifying SIB was also evaluated. OBJECTIVES To characterize the phenomenon of SIB demographically and anatomically and to evaluate the validity of diagnosis based on roentgenograms. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND DATA Although SIB is an important diagnostic parameter in many spinal diseases, the type of association between them has never been established. Furthermore, the extent of SIB in humans and its relationship to demographic parameters await osteological research as radiograph studies hamper the results. METHODS Two thousand eight hundred and forty-five skeleton pelves were examined for SIB. Extent and laterality were recorded. Ten pelves (5 with SIB and 5 without) were X-rayed and the roentgenograms given to radiologists for evaluation. RESULTS Sacroiliac bridging was present in 12.27% of all males, contrasted with only 1.83% of females (P < 0.001). SIB was independent of ethnic origin (P = 0.0535) but was age-dependent (r = 0.985; P = 0.0001). Bridging was present bilaterally in 38.6% of the individuals and in the superior region in 72.4%. Diffuse bridging (areas 1-6) was present in only 2.3% of the individuals. Radiologic examination was insensitive to diagnosis of SIB. CONCLUSIONS SIB is a common, but predominantly male phenomenon. Its occurrence is age-dependent and ethnicity independent. Bridging occurs mainly on the superior aspect of the sacroiliac joint. The irregular shape and orientation of sacroiliac joints preclude definitely distinguishing normal versus bridged joints from roentgenograms. Our findings also negate the belief that bridging/fusion of the sacroiliac joint represents the most severe form of osteoarthritis and mandate that they be separately recorded and that their significance be determined.
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- Gali Dar
- Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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Spondyloarthropathy is a common occurrence in Old World primates, with only limited presence in New World monkeys. Clearly distinguished from rheumatoid arthritis, this erosive arthritis afflicts 20% of great apes, baboons, and rhesus macaques and had been increasing in frequency. Habitat-dependent infectious agent diarrhea-induced reactive arthritis is implicated on a background of genetic predisposition. A gorilla-derived therapeutic preventative approach has possible application in human clinical medicine.
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- Bruce M Rothschild
- Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, 5500 Market Street, Youngstown, OH 44512, USA.
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Rothschild BM, Rühli FJ. Comparison of arthritis characteristics in lowlandGorilla gorilla and mountainGorilla beringei. Am J Primatol 2005; 66:205-18. [PMID: 16015662 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Gorilla gorilla and the less-studied G. beringei occupy very different, geographically separate habitats. We studied the occurrence of various forms of arthritis to examine possible nature/nurture causality. The macerated skeletons of 38 G. beringei and 99 G. gorilla individuals were examined macroscopically for the presence of articular and osseous pathologies. Contrasting with only isolated osteoarthritis and infectious arthritis was the frequent occurrence of a form of erosive arthritis associated with joint fusion. Twenty-one percent of the G. beringei and 20% of G. gorilla specimens were afflicted, which are statistically indistinguishable frequencies. While both had prominent axial disease, they differed in patterns of peripheral arthritis. Whereas G. beringei showed a pauciarticular pattern, the pattern in G. gorilla was more often polyarticular. Susceptibility to spondyloarthropathy was apparently genetically imprinted before Gorilla separated into G. gorilla and G. beringei. However, the different patterns of peripheral joint involvement suggest a causality resulting from lifestyle (e.g., the presence/absence or extent of knuckle walking) or a habitat-related infectious agent.
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- Bruce M Rothschild
- Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, 5500 Market, Youngstown, OH 44512, USA.
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Rothschild BM, Rothschild C. On pseudoscience and treponemal disease in the Western Pacific. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 1999; 40:69-71. [PMID: 11623593 DOI: 10.1086/515803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Nader L. Correction. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.1086/515801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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As the arboreal ape, Pongo, has an unusual ground ambulation adaptation, it was of interest to assess the impact of Pongo gait on patterns of arthritis. While osteoarthritis was not identified in Pongo, 11% of individual skeletons were afflicted with an inflammatory, erosive arthritis. The presence of sacroiliac involvement and the nature and distribution of erosive lesions allowed definitive diagnosis of spondyloarthropathy. Character, distribution, and radiologic appearance revealed a picture distinguishable from spondyloarthropathy in other primates.
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- B M Rothschild
- Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, Youngstown 44512, USA.
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Stieglitz H, Lipsky P. Association between reactive arthritis and antecedent infection with Shigella flexneri carrying a 2-Md plasmid and encoding an HLA-B27 mimetic epitope. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1993; 36:1387-91. [PMID: 7692858 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780361010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether Shigella flexneri strains that cause enteric infection and are associated with reactive arthritis (ReA) carry a 2-Md plasmid, pHS-2, which encodes an HLA-B27 mimetic epitope. METHODS Plasmid DNA from Shigella isolates was characterized by DNA-DNA hybridization, restriction endonuclease digestion, and sequencing. RESULTS S flexneri strains associated with ReA carried a 2-Md plasmid homologous to pHS-2. CONCLUSION The finding of pHS-2 in additional Shigella strains associated with ReA underscores its potential importance in the etiology of the disease.
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- H Stieglitz
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-8884
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