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Opportunistic infections and inflammatory bowel disease

  

  1. 1.Department of Gastroenterology, the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University;
    Hebei Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology; Hebei Institute of Gastroenterology, Shijiazhuang 050000, China;
    2.Department of Gastroenterology,215 Hospital of Shaanxi Nuclear Industry,Xianyang 712000, China
  • Online:2016-08-05 Published:2016-07-30
  • Contact: Corresponding author: Yin Fengrong,Email: yinfr@163.com

Abstract: Application of immunosuppression opens a door for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), while the opportunistic infections (OI) have emerged in it. Opportunistic infections in patients with IBD include viral infections, bacterial infections, fungal infections and parasite infections and so on. The OI increase  the mortality and morbidity of IBD patients, so early detection and identification of IBD with OI and early treatment or preventive treatment were extremely important.

Key words: inflammatory bowel diseases, infection, treatment