Reiter's Disease
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Reiter's disease may be described as a syndrome of unknown {etiology presenting the classical triad of bilateral conjunctivitis, arthritis and urethritis. Ilmari Paronen of the University of Helsinki studied 344 cases on the Karelian Isthmus, originating mostly in a widespread epidemic of Flexner'sdysentery, and he concludes that Reiter's syndrome occurs only after dysentery and that the dysentery bacillus seems to be the causative factor even
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Reiter's disease in two brothers.
Reiter's disease affecting more than one member of a family has been reported only rarely. Paronen (1948) described three families in whom several members, including women and children, developed Reiter's disease following dysentery. All other reported cases of familial aggregation of Reiter's disease have concerned males alone and have never occurred as a sequel to dysentery. Trier (1950) and ...
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