Epidemic Reiter's syndrome following an outbreak of shigellosis

✍ Scribed by M. Finch; G. Rodey; D. Lawrence; P. Blake

• Book ID: 104644788
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 410 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0393-2990
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00152713

✦ Synopsis

We prospectively studied the occurrence of Reiter's syndrome (RS) or reactive arthritis (ReA) in 205 of 349 cruise-ship passengers who attended a buffet ashore and developed Shigella flexneri 2a enteritis. Five passengers probably had RS/ReA and 16 were possibIe or doubtful cases of RS/ReA. HLA.B27 was identified in 4 of 5 probable RS cases, but was not present .in any of the 16 possible or doubtful cases nor in any of 20 passengers (controls) ~'ithout any symptoms of RS/ReA. There was no statistically significant difference in the frequency of B7-ereg antigens in persons with possible or doubtful RS/ReA (9/16) compared to controls (8/20). * B7-CREG antigens are B7, B13, B22, B27, B40 (60,61), B42. ** One case was B60, --and another was BT, --. These cases are probably homozygous for B60 and B7, respectively; however, one cannot be sure without HLA typing the natural parents of these persons.