Gut microbiota and inflammatory bowel disease: The role of antibiotics in disease management

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 7-19

  Kerman, David H ^a   Deshpande, Amar R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Crohn s disease; Inflammatory bowel disease; Probiotics; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; INFLIXIMAB; MESALAZINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROIMIDAZOLE; ORNIDAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; RIFAXIMIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HUMAN; ILEITIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE FLORA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; RECTUM FISTULA; REMISSION; REVIEW; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MICROBIOTA; PROBIOTICS; RECTAL FISTULA; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 84907960361     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2014.07.2779     Document Type: Article

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