Cytomegalovirus and inflammatory bowel disease.
An 80 year old man was admitted to hospital with a 4 month history of diarrhoea with blood and mucus. The diarrhoea could not be controlled by a variety of drugs and he died 7 weeks later. Rectal biopsy showed both intranuclear and intracytoplasmic inclusional bodies consistent with cytomegalovirus infection.
D000368:Aged; D003092:Colitis / Q000209:etiology*; D003586:Cytomegalovirus Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007413:Intestinal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D012007:Rectum / Q000473:pathology