Abstract
THE high incidence of acute joint disease in male patients with positive prostatic cultures, in addition to the knowledge that animals infected with L organisms frequently have arthritis, suggests that pleuropneumonia-like organisms play a role in producing the joint disease in the patients. The hypothesis that this organism is the cause of the arthritis is somewhat supported by the fact that in 2 cases of Reiter's syndrome (as Case 11) L organisms were cultured from the knee-joint fluid. However, no L organisms were found in the synovial fluids in the other 11 cases in this series in which a search . . .
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