Increased short- and long-term risk of inflammatory bowel disease after salmonella or campylobacter gastroenteritis.

Abstract

Various commensal enteric and potentially pathogenic bacteria may be involved in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We compared the risk of IBD between a cohort of patients with documented Salmonella or Campylobacter gastroenteritis and an age- and gender-matched control group from the same population in Denmark.