Adherent-invasive
                    <i>Escherichia coli</i>
                    in inflammatory bowel disease

Palmela, Carolina; Chevarin, Caroline; Xu, Zhilu; Torres, Joana; Sevrin, Gwladys; Hirten, Robert; Barnich, Nicolas; C Ng, Siew; Colombel, Jean-Frederic

doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2017-314903

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Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli in inflammatory bowel disease

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Authors:

Carolina Palmela

Caroline Chevarin

Zhilu Xu

Abstract

Intestinal microbiome dysbiosis has been consistently described in patients with IBD. In the last decades, Escherichia coli , and the adherent-invasive E coli (AIEC) pathotype in particular, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of IBD. Since the discovery of AIEC, two decades ago, progress has be...

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