title: Review: gut sterilization in inflammatory bowel disease.
abstract: Achieving a substantial reduction in the bacterial flora of the gut is a theoretically attractive means of treating inflammatory bowel disease, particularly colonic disease. There are practical difficulties in obtaining a sustained reduction of the colonic bacterial count, and the potential role of such a treatment regimen is therefore the initiation of remission. The data in the literature supporting such a suggestion are anecdotal, and a controlled study is indicated.
authors.affiliation: Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Hodgson
mesh_terms: D003106:Colon / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000628:therapy