Rheumatoid arthritis and Proteus /
Alan Ebringer.
- x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Scope and distribution of the RA problem -- History of the attempts to find the cause of RA -- HLA-DR1/4 and antibodies to Proteus in London -- Antibodies to Proteus in Irish patients with rheumatoid arthritis -- Antibodies to Proteus in rheumatoid arthritis patients from Bermuda and from Hertfordshire in England -- Antibodies to Proteus in rheumatoid arthritis patients from Brest and Toulouse in France -- Dutch patients with rheumatoid arthritis have antibodies to Proteus -- Anti-Proteus antibodies in Norwegian rheumatoid arthritis patients following a lactovegetarian diet -- Antibodies to Proteus in rheumatoid arthritis patients from Norway, Spain and England -- Antibodies to Proteus in rheumatoid arthritis patients from southern Japan -- Urine cultures and correlation -- Molecular similarity between the 'shared epitope' of rheumatoid arthritis and bacteria -- Gram-negative bacteria possess sequences which resemble the 'shared epitope' but only Proteus infect rheumatoid arthritis patients -- Immune responses to Proteus in rheumatoid arthritis patients from Finland and Japan -- Molecular similarity between the rheumatoid arthritis associated motif EQKRAA and structurally related sequences of Proteus -- Rheumatoid arthritis sera are cytotoxic to cells bearing HLA and collagen susceptibility sequences -- The scientific method of Sir Karl Popper -- Rheumatoid arthritis and 'Popper Sequences'.