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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has some of the features of a chronic infective disease; hypotheses of its infective etiology are seldom out of fashion for very long and their sophistication broadly parallels new knowledge and technical advances in microbiology.
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Marmion, B.P., Mackay, J.M.K. (1977). Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Virus Hypothesis. In: Glynn, L.E., Schlumberger, H.D. (eds) Experimental Models of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases. Bayer-Symposium, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66573-8_17
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