Postinfectious Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Genetic Link Identified?

Gastroenterology

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1246-1249

  Vermeire, Séverine ^a   Van Assche, Gert ^a   Rutgeerts, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 9; UVOMORULIN;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; INNATE IMMUNITY; IRRITABLE COLON; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 77949824717     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2010.02.032     Document Type: Editorial

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