Background:Crohn’s disease,described by Dr.Burrill Crohn and his colleagues in 1932,continues to be of great research and clinical interest.It was initially perceived as a distinct condition and it has evolved since ...
BACKGROUND Brucellosis is endemic in India with seropositivity rates as high as 10%in children in the eastern states,yet the disease is not on the radar when a differential diagnosis of pyrexia of unknown origin(PUO)i...
Supported by PRONEX CNPq/FUNCAP,No.PR2-0101-00060.01.00/15;Sao Paulo Research Foundation(FAPESP),No.2014/25927-2 and No.2018/07862-1.
Clostridioides difficile(C.difficile)is the most common pathogen causing health care-associated infections.C.difficile TcdA and TcdB have been shown to activate enteric neurons;however,what population of these cells i...
Supported by JSPS KAKENHI,No. JP18K16286, and No. JP18K08600
BACKGROUND Evidence has been published on the successful applications of the anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha antibody infliximab,such as induction therapy,salvage treatment for acute cellular rejection,and treatment ...
This research was supported grants of Arkansas Biosciences Institute,USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture(NIFA)Hatch project 1012366;USDA NIFA Hatch/Multi State project 1018699,USDA NIFA project 2018–06686 to X.
Background:Clostridium perfringens-induced chicken necrotic enteritis(NE)is responsible for substantial economic losses worldwide annually.Recently,as a result of antibiotic growth promoter prohibition,the prevalence ...
BACKGROUND Capecitabine is considered a first line agent in adjuvant therapy for breast and colorectal cancer. However,cases of severe diarrhea have been reported with increasing frequency in recent years. When diarrh...
Diversion colitis is characterized by inflammation of the mucosa in the defunctioned segment of the colon after colostomy or ileostomy. Similar to diversion colitis, diversion pouchitis is an inflammatory disorder occ...
reviewed and approved by the Royal Adelaide Hospital Human Research Ethics committee
AIM: To compare the outcomes of a cohort of Crohn's disease(CD) patients undergoing early surgery(ES) to those undergoing initial medical therapy(IMT).METHODS: We performed a review of a prospective database CD patien...
Intestinal tuberculosis(TB) is an uncommon lesion for which differential diagnosis can be difficult. We present a case of a 53-year-old male and a systematic review of the literature, from clinical symptoms to differe...
Cytomegalovirus(CMV)infection of the gastrointestinal (GI)tract has been reported in both immunocompetent and,more frequently,in immunocompromised patients.We describe a case of a 19-year-old male who developed CMV in...