title: Bacterial infections: small intestine and colon.
abstract: Bacterial infections of the small intestine and colon represent a major health problem for developing and developed nations. Recent technological progress has helped research groups to obtain important information on bacterial structure, identify evolutionary relationship between bacterial species, and learn details of the mechanisms involved in the interplay between host and microbes that culminate in disease expression. It is hoped that accumulated knowledge from in vitro experiments and animal models will translate into clinical benefit by means of developing new therapeutic strategies and effective vaccines.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
authors.forename: Stavros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sougioultzis
authors.forename: Charalabos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pothoulakis