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Severe acute colitis associated with CMV: a prevalence study.
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Dec 2004
Criscuoli V, Casà A, Orlando A, Pecoraro G, Oliva L, Traina M, Rizzo A, Cottone M
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BACKGROUND: Cytomegalovirus has been identified as a pathogen that contributes to flares of colitis when detected in colonic specimens of patients with inflammatory bowel disease. AIM: To determine the overall prevalence and the role of cytomegalovirus infection in a consecutive series of patients with acute severe colitis admitted to our department from 2000 to 2003. METHODS: Among 42 patients (38 with...
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