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- Published on: 18 April 2016
- Published on: 18 April 2016
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Dear Editor
We would like to thank Gosselink and colleagues for their observations on our recent paper.[1,2]
We did not wish to suggest that we were the first to demonstrate a bacterial aetiology of pouchitis and apologise for any part of the paper which might be interpreted in that way. Given that large, well-designed and multi-centre trials of antibiotics in pouchitis as well as IBD are lacking we appla...
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Dear Editor
We read with interest the paper by Bell and co-workers.[1] They conducted a study in order to evaluate the effect of the pouch flora on the proliferation of lymphocytes. They observed that a pouchitis derived bacterial sonicate resulted in a significantly higher proliferation of the lymphocytes obtained from healthy pouch patients’ than a non-pouchitis derived sonicate. The capacity to induce this prol...
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