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Rationale for probiotic and antibiotic treatment strategies in inflammatory bowel diseases.
Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2003
Schultz Michael, Schölmerich Jürgen, Rath Heiko C
Abstract excerpt
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), commonly referred to as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic aggressive disorders which share many similarities concerning pathomechanism and clinical course, but have very distinct features. Both entities are mainly located in areas with high bacterial concentrations, such as the terminal ileum and cecum in Crohn's disease and the rectum in ulcerative colitis. In...
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