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Query: UMLS:C0027121 (
myositis
)
4,538
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
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.
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PMID:The relationship of infectious agents to inflammatory myositis. 785 33
