Objective To determine the prevalence and clinical significance of human parvovirus B19 (B19)
infection in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods One hundred patients with …

Background and objective We evaluated a possible correlation between the clinical activities
of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and human parvovirus B19 (B19) infection using exploratory …

Background and objectives: Composition of the peripheral blood (PB) cell populations and
their activation state reflect the immune status of a patient. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is …

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic, progressive, severely debilitating, and multifactorial joint
disease that is recognized as the most common type of arthritis. During the last decade, it shows …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic autoimmune inflammatory disease affecting
joints and causing symmetrical chronic progressive aseptic synovitis and erosive-destructive …

Based on epidemiological data, osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease of
populations of industrialised countries. The increasing prevalence of OA is closely related to an …

Human herpesvirus (HHV)-6 and HHV-7 are closely related viruses classified into the
Roseolovirus genus in the Betaherpesvirinae subfamily. HHV-6 and HHV-7 are ubiquitous in …

… Anda Kadiða 1,2,3,# , Zaiga Nora-Krûkle 1 , Svetlana … ESR higher than 30 mm/h and CRP
level above 8 mg/L were … Rollín, R., Alvarez-Lafuente, R., Marco, F., López-Durán, L., Hoyas, …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that causes erosive changes
and ankylosis of joints and may cause internal injuries. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative …

… # Corresponding author, anda.kadisa@rsu.lv … CRP level higher than 8 mg/l, and ESR
level greater than 30 mm/h were noted to signify active disease. The Disease Activity Score 28 …