Browsing HMS Scholarly Articles by Author "Bousvaros, Athos"

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    • Characterization of Adherent Bacteroidales from Intestinal Biopsies of Children and Young Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease 

      Zitomersky, Naamah L.; Atkinson, Benjamin J.; Franklin, Sarah W.; Mitchell, Paul D.; Snapper, Scott B.; Comstock, Laurie E.; Bousvaros, Athos (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      There is extensive evidence implicating the intestinal microbiota in inflammatory bowel disease [IBD], but no microbial agent has been identified as a sole causative agent. Bacteroidales are numerically dominant intestinal ...

    • Dysfunction of the Intestinal Microbiome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Treatment 

      Morgan, Xochitl C; Sokol, Harry; Gevers, Dirk; Ward, Doyle V; LeLeiko, Neal; Sands, Bruce E; Tickle, Timothy L.; Devaney, Kathryn L; Reyes, Joshua Anthony; Shah, Samir A; Snapper, Scott Brian; Bousvaros, Athos; Korzenik, Joshua; Xavier, Ramnik; Huttenhower, Curtis (BioMed Central, 2012)
      Background: The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis result from alterations in intestinal microbes and the immune system. However, the precise dysfunctions of microbial metabolism in ...

    • Non-Invasive Mapping of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota Identifies Children with Inflammatory Bowel Disease 

      Papa, Eliseo; Docktor, Michael Jason; Smillie, Christopher; Weber, Sarah; Preheim, Sarah P.; Gevers, Dirk; Giannoukos, Georgia; Ciulla, Dawn; Tabbaa, Diana; Ingram, Jay; Schauer, David B.; Ward, Doyle V.; Korzenik, Joshua; Xavier, Ramnik; Bousvaros, Athos; Alm, Eric J. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is challenging to diagnose because of the non-specificity of symptoms; an unequivocal diagnosis can only be made using colonoscopy, which clinicians are reluctant to ...