Document 0530
 DOCN  M9550530
 TI    The relationship of infectious agents to inflammatory myositis.
 DT    9505
 AU    Ytterberg SR; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 SO    Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 1994 Nov;20(4):995-1015. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/95158606
 AB    Several infectious agents have been linked to chronic inflammatory
       myositis. The mechanisms proposed usually involve presumed persistent
       infection or induction of an autoimmune response following infection.
       Agents most often implicated are the enteroviruses (especially
       coxsackieviruses), echoviruses in patients with agammaglobulinemia,
       retroviruses including HIV-type 1 and human T-cell lymphotropic virus
       type 1, and the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. In the majority of cases,
       however, no specific infectious agent can be identified.
 DE    Adult  Child  Female  Human  Male  Middle Age  Myositis/*ETIOLOGY
       Parasitic Diseases/COMPLICATIONS  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  Support, U.S.
       Gov't, Non-P.H.S.  Toxoplasmosis/COMPLICATIONS  Virus
       Diseases/*COMPLICATIONS  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW LITERATURE

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