Environmental factors associated with Crohn's disease in India-there's more to it than meets the eye

Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 255-256

  Dhar, Anjan ^a  

^a Bunny Hill Primary Care Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; COLITIS; CROHN DISEASE; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROHN DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; SANITATION;

EID: 84855196765     PISSN: 02548860     EISSN: 09750711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12664-011-0147-z     Document Type: Editorial

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