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In the early 1980s, the Immunology Unit of King’s College had shown that there were elevated levels of antibodies to the Gram-negative bowel microbe Klebsiella in patients suffering from ankylosing spondylitis.
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Ebringer, A., Ebringer, A. (2013). Dutch and German Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis Have Antibodies to Klebsiella . In: Ankylosing spondylitis and Klebsiella. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4300-0_14
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