How Toxic Gut Bacteria Could Cause Ulcerative Colitis

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Nanjing – Chinese researchers have discovered a bacterium in the intestines of people with ulcerative colitis that kills the macrophages of the intestinal lining by producing the toxin aerolysin, thereby promoting the inflammatory response in the gut. In mice, treatment with an aerolysin antibody prevented colitis, and in those already infected...