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Bacteroides fragilis enterotoxin gene sequences in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
T P Prindiville1, R A Sheikh, S H Cohen
1University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|April 11, 2000
Abstract:
We identified enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis in stool specimens of patients with inflammatory bowel disease and other gastrointestinal disorders. The organism was detected in 11 (13.2%) of 83 patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Of 57 patients with active disease, 19.3% were toxin positive; none of those with inactive disease had specimens positive for enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis gene sequences.