Editorial: mesalazine and mucosal microbiome in quiescent ulcerative colitis-what can we learn?

Aliment Pharmacol Ther

Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Published: June 2019

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