Is Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans the missing link between periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis?

Abstract

The impact of chronic conditions on the modern population is even more evident in view of a prolonged human life span. In addition, most individuals will probably simultaneously suffer from more than one chronic condition. As such, unveiling the pathogenesis of chronic diseases, as well as the causal factors that crosstalk between different conditions, is one of the greatest challenges faced by modern medicine. Two such conditions are periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

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