Ulcerative colitis with multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection successfully treated with bifidobacterium.
A 71-year-old man was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC) complicated by bacterial infections, and his active disease proved difficult to treat with steroid therapy or antibiotics. Although the patient's UC failed to respond to several types of induction therapy, his condition finally improved when treated using Bifidobacterium. Probiotics could be one of the treatment agents for induction of remission in UC.
Nagasaki
Azusa
A
Gastroenterology Division, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan.
Takahashi
Hirokazu
H
Iinuma
Mizue
M
Uchiyama
Takashi
T
Watanabe
Seitaro
S
Koide
Tomoko
T
Tokoro
Chikako
C
Inamori
Masahiko
M
Abe
Yasunobu
Y
Nakajima
Atsushi
A
D000368:Aged; D001644:Bifidobacterium; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000150:complications* / Q000178:diet therapy*; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019936:Probiotics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa