Bacterial and viral infections mimicking inflammatory bowel diseases

摘要

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) - ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) - is a group of chronic diseases involving the gastrointestinal system, characterized by inflammation in bowel and sometimes associated with extra-intestinal features. IBD is characterized by clinical symptoms such as bloody diarrhoea, passage of mucus, abdominal pain, fever, weight loss, etc., depending on the specific disease, either UC or CD.