The authors studied ++chemotaxis, phagocytosis and the activity of intracellular enzymes of leukocytes in the peripheral blood of 90 patients with reactive arthritis as compared to 23 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 28 healthy individuals. Disorders of all these parameters were noted. They correlated with the specific features of the clinical course of the disease and its activity. In case of reactive arthritis the persistence of the infection and immunopathological disorders underlying chronic synovitis are attributable to the condition of nonspecific resistance.
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