The Broad Street pump revisited: dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia

We report an ongoing outbreak of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in Forest, Virginia involving 15 unrelated children and teenagers who resided in close proximity to dairy farms. Some of our cases demonstrated serologic evidence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection...

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Autores principales: Pierce, Ellen S, Borowitz, Stephen M, Naser, Saleh A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22196128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-3-20
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spelling pubmed-32871032012-02-28 The Broad Street pump revisited: dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia Pierce, Ellen S Borowitz, Stephen M Naser, Saleh A Gut Pathog Case Report We report an ongoing outbreak of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in Forest, Virginia involving 15 unrelated children and teenagers who resided in close proximity to dairy farms. Some of our cases demonstrated serologic evidence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection, suggesting its potential role as an etiologic agent. BioMed Central 2011-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3287103/ /pubmed/22196128 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-3-20 Text en Copyright ©2011 Pierce et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The Broad Street pump revisited: dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia
title The Broad Street pump revisited: dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia
title_full The Broad Street pump revisited: dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia
title_fullStr The Broad Street pump revisited: dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287103/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-4749-3-20
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