"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Findings from a study support a connection between Escherichia coli infection and inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, which includes ulcerative colitis (inflammation of the colon) and Crohn's disease (inflammation of the digestive tract)."
"Dr. Denis O. Krause told Reuters Health that "a number of research groups have associated E. coli with IBD, but the exact mode of action is still unclear.""
"E. coli from IBD tissue has been shown to produce certain proteins that degrade the junctions between cells in the intestine, which is "something we know happens in IBD," Krause explained. "
"To further investigate ties between E. coli and IBD, Krause and colleagues at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg examined biopsy tissue specimens from 32 people with IBD, including 13 with Crohn's disease and 19 with ulcerative colitis, and 15 healthy controls. "
"According to the team's report published in the May issue of the journal Gut, E. coli was more abundant in tissue from patients with IBD than in tissue from healthy control ... read the whole article
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