Gastrointestinal infections and the development of irritable bowel syndrome
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 09/02/2011
DuPont HL – With full characterization of postdiarrhea forms of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGDs), authors should be able to define the mechanisms of disease early in the course of chronic illness and to better understand the more common idiopathic forms of the disease. They are likely to identify specific alteration of gut pathophysiology in postinfectious FGDs and to then classify them not as a poorly characterized group of functional disorders but as specific gastrointestinal disorders.
