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Inflammatory bowel disease results from a dysregulated immunologic response to commensal microbial flora residing in the intestinal lumen. Although this response is probably due at least in part to a genetic predisposition, patients with inflammatory bowel disease have also been reported to house an abnormal intestinal microbiota.¹ Whether this altered flora is the cause or result of the associated chronic inflammation remains unclear. Also unclear is the exent to which inflammatory bowel disease may be transmissible.

A recent study by Garrett et al.² sheds new light on this issue and on whether specific microbes contribute to the development of this . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Section of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, University of Illinois, Chicago.

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