Bacteria as the cause of ulcerative colitis

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Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory condition of the large bowel of unknown aetiology, characterised by the presence of bloody diarrhoea and mucus associated with a negative stool culture for bacteria, ova, or parasites. This definition finds its historical rationale in the first supposed description of the disease by Wilks and Moxon more than one century ago (1875)1; they reported a case of bloody...

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