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Is Crohn’s Disease a Mycobacterial Disease?

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Editors:
  1. Chris J. J. Mulder

    1. Department of Hepato-gastroenterology, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands

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  2. Guido N. J. Tytgat

    1. Department of Hepato-gastroenterology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Developments in Gastroenterology (DIGA, volume 14)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Historical Overview and Current Approaches in Determining a Mycobacterial Etiology of Crohn’s Disease

    • Rodrick J. Chiodini
    Pages 1-15

  3. Mycobacterial Isolates from Crohn’s Disease in the Netherlands

    • Jan Haagsma, Chris J. J. Mulder, Anthony Eger, Guido N. J. Tytgat
    Pages 16-21

  4. Attempts at Culturing Mycobacteria from Tissues of Patients with Crohn’s Disease

    • Georg Kreuzpaintner, Richard Kölble, Axel Wallner, Rudolf Hesterberg, Marie Francoise Thorel, Lutz Thomas et al.
    Pages 22-34

  5. Immunohistological Evidence for Mycobacteria in Crohn’s Disease

    • Pranab K. Das, Ada W. Slob, Arnold Stronkhorst, Sander J. H. van Deventer, Guido N. J. Tytgat
    Pages 35-45

  6. Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis and Crohn’s Disease

    • J. D. Sanderson, M. T. Moss, M. L. V. Tizard, J. Hermon-Taylor
    Pages 46-48

  7. Rabbits and Severe Combined Immunodeficient (SCID) Mice as Animal Models for Mycobacteria in Crohn’s Disease

    • D. G. Butler
    Pages 49-53

  8. Immunotherapeutical Approaches to Crohn’s Disease in View of a Possible Pathogenic Role of Mycobacterial Antigens

    • Arnold Stronkhorst, Guido N. J. Tytgat, Sander J. H. van Deventer
    Pages 54-63

  9. Is Immunotherapy with Mycobacterium Vaccae Appropriate to Crohn’s Disease?

    • John L. Stanford
    Pages 64-69

  10. Mycobacterial Etiology of Crohn’s Disease: How to Prove Causation

    • Fouad A. K. El-Zaatari, David Y. Graham
    Pages 70-75

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 77-77
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About this book

IS CROHN'S DISEASE A MYCOBACTERIAL DISEASE'! The fact that the differential diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease includes intestinal infections has been a source of much interest and clinical concern for many years. Since the recognition of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease as clinical entities, numerous attempts have been made to identify a specific organism resulting in the clinical and pathologic picture of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The first suggestion about a connection between Johne's disease, a chronic mycobacterial enteritis in cattle, and Crohn' s disease occurred in 1913, when Dalziel described enteritis in humans which, although resembling intestinal tuberculosis, he believed to be a new disorder. Since the work of Crohn in the thirties a few investigators attempted to look for mycobacteria in Crohn's disease. Until now the work of Van Patter, Burnham and others did not receive widespread recognition. In 1984 the isolation of M. paratuberculosis was reported by Chiodini et al. This report initiated the current interest and controversy about a mycobacterial etiology in Crohn's disease. The hypothesis "Crohn's disease is Johne's disease" did not receive widespread recognition, but has lead to the first muIticentered efforts to determine whether or not mycobacteria are associated with Crohn's disease.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Hepato-gastroenterology, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, The Netherlands

    Chris J. J. Mulder

  • Department of Hepato-gastroenterology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Guido N. J. Tytgat

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Is Crohn’s Disease a Mycobacterial Disease?

  • Editors: Chris J. J. Mulder, Guido N. J. Tytgat

  • Series Title: Developments in Gastroenterology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1830-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2026-5Published: 30 November 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4808-8Published: 25 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1830-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 77

  • Topics: Gastroenterology, Medical Microbiology, Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science

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