High prevalence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in intestinal mucosal biopsies from patients with inflammatory bowel disease and controls

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2529-2535

  Chen, W ^a   Li, D ^a   Paulus, B ^a   Wilson, I ^a   Chadwick, V S ^a  

^a Wakefield Hospital   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Crohn's disease; Etiology; Inflammatory bowel disease; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENTERITIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; BIOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034761395     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012352626117     Document Type: Article

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