Rheumatoid factors: where are we now?
Open Access
- 1 May 1997
- journal article
- leader
- Published by Elsevier in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
- Vol. 56 (5) , 285-286
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.56.5.285
Abstract
RFs are not exclusive to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They are found in a number of other autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematous and Sjögren’s syndrome, infectious diseases such a mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Lyme disease and in healthy people.1Keywords
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