A wide range of etiologies and pathogenic mechanisms underlie colitis. This Review provides an overview of the pathophysiology, epidemiology, histopathology, and clinical characteristics of ...

It is useful for differentiating infectious colitis from idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease. If stool studies are nondiagnostic and symptoms persist despite medical intervention, flexible ...

Infectious colitis often improves with treatment. But colitis that is caused by IBD, like Crohn's colitis, is considered chronic. While the disease might go into remission or improve with ...

A commonly used antibiotic called vancomycin, which is usually prescribed to treat infectious diarrhea, may also be helpful ...

My research involves Shigella flexneri, an infectious colitis agent and leading cause of diarrheal disease. I am investigating the basis for “colonization resistance” against Shigella to understand ...

The analysis included 14,768 patients diagnosed with IBD (from January 1990 to July 2021; 6,144 with ulcerative colitis and 8,624 with Crohn disease) and 120,338 matched individuals without IBD. The ...