[Use of TNFalpha antibodies in treatment of inflammatory bowel disease].

Background: TNFalpha-antibodies have been used increasingly in treatment of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) during the last years. This article provides an overview of indications, contraindications, efficacy, and side effects of this so-called biological treatment of IBD.

Material And Methods: Based on the clinical experience of the authors, literature was selected through a non-systematic search in PubMed.

[Biopsies of the endoscopically normal colon].

Background: The importance of biopsies of the endoscopically normal colonic mucosa is controversial.

Material And Methods: All patients who underwent total colonoscopy at St. Olav"s Hospital in 2004 were considered for inclusion if their colonoscopy was normal.

Flies and Campylobacter infection of broiler flocks.

A total of 8.2% of flies caught outside a broiler house in Denmark had the potential to transmit Campylobacter jejuni to chickens, and hundreds of flies per day passed through the ventilation system into the broiler house. Our study suggests that flies may be an important source of Campylobacter infection of broiler flocks in summer.

[Dietary treatment of celiac disease].

Life-long gluten-free diet is the established therapy of coeliac disease. Patients suffering from dermatitis herpetiformis benefit from the same treatment. In Norway the gluten-free diet has excluded oats as well as wheat, rye and barley.