Can a Mathematical Model Be Used to Estimate the Contribution of Acute Gastroenteritis to the Overall Prevalence of Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
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CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Andrew Seng Boon Chua, MD, MRCP Gastro Centre Ipoh, 31 Lebuh Taman Ipoh, Ipoh Garden South, Ipoh, Perak 31400, Malaysia Tel: +60-05-545-8488, Fax: +60-05-545-7488, E-mail: [email protected] Financial support: None. Conflicts of interest: None. Article: Estimating the contribution of acute gastroenteritis to the overall prevalence of irritable bowel syndrome Shah ED, Riddle MS, Chang C, Pimentel M (J Neurogastroenterol Motil 2012;18:200-204)
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دوره 18 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2012