TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial
T2 - Antibiotics earlier, IBD later
AU - De Vroey, Bénédicte
AU - De Cassan, Chiara
AU - Gower-Rousseau, Corinne
AU - Colombel, Jean Frédéric
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Increasing evidence accumulates for a role of environmental factors in the onset of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Among them, factors that might disturb the gut microflora hold an important place. As such, antibiotics deserve a special attention, and a possible association between their use, particularly during childhood, and the development of IBD, has been assessed by several authors since 1987. Results, conclusions, and possible impact of their observations, as well as perspectives for the future, are discussed here, in view of the article published in this issue of the Journal by Shaw et al.
AB - Increasing evidence accumulates for a role of environmental factors in the onset of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Among them, factors that might disturb the gut microflora hold an important place. As such, antibiotics deserve a special attention, and a possible association between their use, particularly during childhood, and the development of IBD, has been assessed by several authors since 1987. Results, conclusions, and possible impact of their observations, as well as perspectives for the future, are discussed here, in view of the article published in this issue of the Journal by Shaw et al.
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U2 - 10.1038/ajg.2010.396
DO - 10.1038/ajg.2010.396
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:78649835881
SN - 0002-9270
VL - 105
SP - 2693
EP - 2696
JO - American Journal of Gastroenterology
JF - American Journal of Gastroenterology
IS - 12
ER -