Gastrointestinal Infections in IBD Flares: Can PCR-Based Stool Tests Differentiate the Smoke from the Fire?

Dig Dis Sci

UCLA Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine At UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Published: November 2020

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