Crohn's as an immune deficiency: from apparent paradox to evolving paradigm.

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Crohn's disease is often considered an autoimmune condition, based on the observations of a histopathological inflammatory process in the absence of identifiable causal microorganism(s) and that immune-modulating therapeutics result in diminished host-directed inflammatory pathology. However, the evidence for a self-targeted immune response is unproven; thus, the instigating and perpetuating forces that drive...

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