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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2007 Mar 13;37(1):48–55. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2006.12.006

Table 1.

Infectious agents associated with the development of reactive arthritis (Modified from [71])

Enteric bacteria

  • Salmonella* (various serovars; especially S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis) [72]

  • Shigella* (S. flexneri, dysenteriae, sonnei)

  • Yersinia* (Y. enterocolitica, Y. pseudotuberculosis)

  • Campylobacter* (C jejuni, C. coli, C. lari [66], possibly C. fetus φ [73])

  • Clostridium difficile [74]

  • Giardia lamblia [75–77]

  • Tropheryma whipplei [78]

Urinary bacteria

  • Chlamydia trachomatis*

  • Mycoplasma genitalium φ [79]

  • Ureaplasma urealyticum φ[79]

  • Possibly E. coli [67, 69, 80]

Respiratory bacteria

  • β-haemolytic Streptococcus φ [81, 82]

  • Campylobacter pneumoniae [83, 84]

*

most common pathogens

φ

Hypothesized causal agents