Salama M M
Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 1990 Dec;20(2):837-9.
Rheumatoid arthritis is not an uncommon disease in Egypt. Its aetiology is still unknown. In this paper, 3 out of 7 visceral leishmaniasis cases and 1 out of 7 controls gave positive rheumatoid factor. It was suggested that L. donovani infection plays a role in the aetiology of rheumatoid arthritis.
类风湿性关节炎在埃及并非罕见疾病。其病因仍不明。在本文中,7例内脏利什曼病患者中有3例、7名对照者中有1例类风湿因子呈阳性。有人提出杜氏利什曼原虫感染在类风湿性关节炎病因中起作用。