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Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease: is Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis the common villain?

Overview of attention for article published in Gut Pathogens, December 2010
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Title
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease: is Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis the common villain?
Published in
Gut Pathogens, December 2010
DOI 10.1186/1757-4749-2-21
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Authors

Ellen S Pierce

Abstract

Mycobacterium avium, subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) causes a chronic disease of the intestines in dairy cows and a wide range of other animals, including nonhuman primates, called Johne's ("Yo-knee's") disease. MAP has been consistently identified by a variety of techniques in humans with Crohn's disease. The research investigating the presence of MAP in patients with Crohn's disease has often identified MAP in the "negative" ulcerative colitis controls as well, suggesting that ulcerative colitis is also caused by MAP. Like other infectious diseases, dose, route of infection, age, sex and genes influence whether an individual infected with MAP develops ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. The apparently opposite role of smoking, increasing the risk of Crohn's disease while decreasing the risk of ulcerative colitis, is explained by a more careful review of the literature that reveals smoking causes an increase in both diseases but switches the phenotype from ulcerative colitis to Crohn's disease. MAP as the sole etiologic agent of both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease explains their common epidemiology, geographic distribution and familial and sporadic clusters, providing a unified hypothesis for the prevention and cure of the no longer "idiopathic" inflammatory bowel diseases.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Denmark 1 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Unknown 100 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 16%
Student > Master 11 10%
Student > Bachelor 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 23 21%
Unknown 21 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 26 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 19%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 8 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 5 5%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 26 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2023.
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#1,426,629
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from Gut Pathogens
#19
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#6,746
of 184,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Gut Pathogens
#2
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