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Detection of <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i> by polymerase chain reaction in intestinal mucosal biopsies from patients with inflammatory bowel disease and controls
1 Oct 2000
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Components of the intestinal microflora are believed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in genetically susceptible hosts acting either as a non-specific antigenic stimulus or as a specific pathogen. Listeria monocytogenes has been suggested as an organism with the potential to cause IBD. The objective of the present study was to investigate the...
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