From the * Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 10029; the ‡ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Rockefeller University, New York 10021; the § Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ruttenberg Cancer Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York 10029; and the i Immunology Program, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and the Department of Medicine, Cornell Universit...

background rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is the most common chronic inflammatory disease. the staphylococcal superantigens are considered as the causative agent of ra disease. objectives this study aimed to assess the presence of staphylococcal enterotoxin d in synovial fluid and blood of patients with ra. patients and methods a total of 120 blood and sf samples of patients with ra were studied. ba...

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