Mice with Inflammatory Bowel Disease are Susceptible toClostridium difficileInfection With Severe Disease Outcomes
Author(s) -
Fenfen Zhou,
Therwa Hamza,
Ashley Saint Fleur,
Yongrong Zhang,
Hua Yu,
Kevin Chen,
Jonathon Heath,
Ye Chen,
Haihui Huang,
Hanping Feng
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
inflammatory bowel diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.932
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1536-4844
pISSN - 1078-0998
DOI - 10.1093/ibd/izx059
Subject(s) - inflammatory bowel disease , medicine , clostridium difficile , colitis , immunology , pathogenesis , proinflammatory cytokine , incidence (geometry) , disease , ulcerative colitis , gastroenterology , antibiotics , inflammation , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , physics , optics
Over the past several decades, there has been a significant increase in the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in patients suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, a wild-type animal model is not available to study these comorbid diseases.
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