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Antibiotics and flare of inflammatory bowel disease: threat or therapy?

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boxed-textAberra F et al. (2005) Antibiotic use and the risk of flare of inflammatory bowel disease. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 3: 459–465

Antibiotics do not exacerbate Crohn's disease but broad-spectrum antibiotic use might be associated with flares of ulcerative colitis

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