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The Broad Street pump revisited: dairy farms and an ongoing outbreak of inflammatory bowel disease in Forest, Virginia

Ellen S Pierce, Stephen M Borowitz and Saleh A Naser

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Gut Pathogens 2011, 3:20 doi:10.1186/1757-4749-3-20

Published: 23 December 2011

Abstract (provisional)

We report an ongoing outbreak of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in Forest, Virginia involving 15 unrelated children and teenagers who resided in close proximity to dairy farms. Some of our cases demonstrated serologic evidence of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection, suggesting its potential role as an etiologic agent.

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